University of Alabama Hospital Birmingham Program

Program Identity & Fit

UAB Neurology is a university-affiliated, academic four-year program (with an integrated PGY-1 internal medicine year) training nine residents per class within a large department of roughly 90 faculty spanning nearly every neurology subspecialty. The presence of eleven-plus fellowship pathways (epilepsy, neurocritical care, movement disorders, neuroimmunology/MS, neuro-oncology, vascular neurology, StrokeNet, headache, behavioral neurology, neuromuscular, neuropsychology) signals a tertiary/quaternary referral environment built to funnel residents toward subspecialty fellowship training. Research is structurally embedded but flexible: residents receive dedicated elective blocks (concentrated in PGY3) with an option to arrange extended 80/20 research-heavy schedules, supported by nearly 50 identified faculty mentors across neurodegenerative, cerebrovascular, epilepsy, neuromuscular, neuro-oncology, and neuroimmunology research. The program draws a diverse resident body mixing MD and DO graduates from US and international medical schools, reflecting an emphasis on collegial, discussion-based clinical training rather than a narrow selection pipeline.