University of Connecticut Program

Program Identity & Fit

UConn Health/Hartford Hospital Neurology is a university-affiliated program anchored by Hartford Hospital, a >900-bed tertiary/quaternary referral center with a Comprehensive Stroke Center, high-volume endovascular program, Comprehensive Epilepsy Center with EMU, and 25-bed Neuro-ICU, complemented by UConn John Dempsey Hospital for continuity and subspecialty outpatient exposure. The program explicitly trains for multiple pathways - general neurology, subspecialty fellowship, or research - with a mandatory PGY3 research project, a faculty research advisor, an end-of-third-year grand rounds requirement, and heavy resident output at national meetings (AAN, ANA, ISC, SNIS), indicating scholarly activity is structurally embedded rather than optional. Fellowship-trained faculty across epilepsy, movement disorders, dementia, neuromuscular, headache, and neuroimmunology support deep subspecialty clinic exposure at both sites, and an optional two-year Health Disparities Scholarship Track offers a structured path into health equity scholarship and community-engaged capstone work. The program values residents who can move fluidly between high-acuity inpatient neurology and complex subspecialty consultation while contributing to publication/presentation output, and it emphasizes producing graduates who return as faculty or enter competitive fellowships with a 100% board pass rate.