Morehouse School of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a mission-driven, HBCU-affiliated academic neurology program at Morehouse School of Medicine, built around training physicians to serve underserved and minority communities, with an explicit institutional identity centered on health equity. Clinical training occurs at Grady Memorial Hospital, one of the nation's largest safety-net systems with a Joint Commission Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center, and the Atlanta VA Medical Center, giving residents exposure to high-acuity stroke, trauma-adjacent neurology, and veteran populations, supplemented by a private-practice child neurology rotation at PANDA Neurology. Research is structurally supported through MSM's Neuroscience Institute, dedicated research rotations, a mandatory national conference presentation, and access to institutional centers focused on health disparities, cancer equity, and HIV care, though the program does not present itself as a research-output-driven training pathway. The program appears to value residents drawn to safety-net and underserved care, comfort working within a majority-Black patient population and socio-culturally complex clinical contexts, and genuine alignment with a health-equity mission rather than pure subspecialty prestige.