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Design and Scope of the Program

CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY POSTDOCTORAL RESIDENCY SUMMARY OF RESIDENCY ACTIVITIES

The following represents a concise summary of the clinical activities, requirements, and didactics included in the OUHS Clinical Neuropsychology Residency Program . In total, you will complete 2000 hours during each year of residency (4000 hours across 2 years), and you will accumulate over 1000 hours of face-to-face contact by the end of residency. Most residents evaluate between 110-120 patients each year.   

Design of Residency

The residency in neuropsychology is designed to provide extensive didactic training, clinical assessment, neuropsychological treatment experience, and the development of research skills. Residency activities include both general and specific elements. Residents have the opportunity to choose certain clinical and research activities to fit with their goals and interests, which are implemented and determined by their training plan. Additionally, residents work closely with one or more faculty members to develop and execute at least one research project or paper each year.

Resident Training Plan (RTP)

We will provide you with an outline to develop a training plan that will serve as a guide for all clinical, research, and didactic experiences you will complete during residency. This training plan will help you meet the seven Clinical Competencies and five Neuropsychology Specialty Competencies contained within our program. We have several samples to help guide this progress.  

Clinical

You will be scheduled to see three clinical cases each week with your supervisors. Case load is adjusted during the Medical Neuroscience course and Clerkship to account for time away from the clinic. In all, you will likely average 12-14 hours of face-to-face clinical contact each week and another 25-30 hours of clinical documentation, research, and didactic activities.  

Supervision

Residents will have two hours of regularly scheduled face-to-face supervision on a weekly basis. You will likely have additional informal supervision beyond this, but a minimum of two hours must be scheduled in an individual format with your clinical supervisors each week.  

Didactics

You will spend a significant portion of your residency completing regularly scheduled didactic activities each week. Two additional required didactics are offered at certain times during the residency. Medical Neuroscience course (Fall of 1st year) and 4-week Neurology Clerkship (Spring of 2nd year). Didactics include:  

  1. Neuroscience course with Medical Students – (12 weeks during 1st Fall Semester)
  2. Neuropsychology Case Conference (1.0 hour weekly)
  3. Neurology Chairman’s Morning Report (1.0 hour weekly)
  4. Neurology Rounds (1.0 hour weekly)
  5. Neurosurgery Rounds (1.0 hour monthly-Optional)
  6. Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences or Interdisciplinary Grand Rounds (36 per year)
  7. Clinical Neurology Clerkship (1 month during second year)
  8. Professional Development Seminar (3 hours monthly)
  9. Research Meetings (2 hours monthly)
  10. Directors’ Meetings (1 hour monthly broken into 15-minute segments with I and J)

Research

Each year you will complete a research-related project of publishable quality. Research meetings occur at regular intervals throughout the training year. You will also have a research supervisor. Trainees will have access to data from a large clinical dataset, but may also collect data with IRB approval. 

By the end of your Postdoctoral Residency, you will have completed all of the formal coursework and clinical rotations of our Medical Students at graduation.