University of Utah Health Program

Program Identity & Fit

The University of Utah Adult Neurology Residency is a categorical, four-year academic program (including an internal-medicine preliminary year) based at the only academic medical center in the Mountain West, drawing complex and unusual referral cases from a catchment spanning roughly 10% of the US landmass. The training footprint spans a tertiary university hospital with a 23-bed neurocritical care unit and comprehensive stroke and epilepsy centers, a VA medical center with active neuroimmunology/paraneoplastic research labs, Primary Children's Hospital, Huntsman Cancer Institute, and a dedicated underserved-population clinic (4th Street Clinic), giving residents breadth across critical care, subspecialty outpatient practice, oncologic neurology, and safety-net care. The program requires a yearly scholarly project for every resident (ranging from case reports to IRB-driven studies) within a well-resourced research infrastructure ($467M annual SOM funding), while explicitly supporting varied outcomes—fellowship, academic medicine, research, leadership, or community practice—through ten subspecialty divisions each with resident-involved curriculum input. With eight residents per class, graduated PGY2-to-PGY4 autonomy, night-float call structure, and strong emphasis on faculty mentorship and work-life balance, the program values residents who can handle high-acuity, diagnostically unusual referral pathology while engaging meaningfully in scholarly output and subspecialty exploration.