2025 Neurology and Neurocritical Care Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship Program

Overview

Overview:

The Dartmouth Health Postgraduate Fellowship Programs offer Advanced Practice Providers an intensive 12-month experience of advanced training. Your training will be comprised of didactic and clinical curricula that will occur concomitantly.

Our Postgraduate Advanced Practice Provider Fellowships give you the opportunity to:

• Further refine critical thinking and highly marketable skills to a specialized patient population.
• Provide high-quality care to a wide variety of patients in the chosen specialty. 
• Be part of an organization dedicated to training the next generation of health care providers.
• Learn and work alongside colleagues in all areas of healthcare who are committed to team-based patient care.
• Access MD, APP, and other staff participating in world-class research, teaching, and leadership through Dartmouth College, TDI, the Value Institute and Geisel School of Medicine, Biomedical and Science Libraries, DHMC Patient Safety Training Center (PSTC), gross anatomy lab, POCUS Training.
• Earn a competitive annual stipend, full and comprehensive benefits, and continuing education credits are available at no cost by participating in and attending lectures, conferences, grand rounds, and journal club.
• Live in a diverse social, cultural and artistic community in a Northern New England setting that offers a wide range of year-round outdoor recreational activities with easy access to major metropolitan areas.

 

The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Fellowship in Neurology and Neurocritical Care is an intensive 12-month program for licensed Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners seeking to take their career to the next level of specialty care. Our faculty strives to promote excellence in all aspects of clinical neurology practice and is passionate about developing the next generation of Advanced Practice Providers.

The program features an integrated clinical and didactic approach to provide a solid foundation in the management of outpatient, hospital-based, and critically ill neurology patients. APP fellows work and learn in a team-based environment, with close mentoring and supervision from attending physicians and advanced practice providers experienced in general neurology and the various subspecialties. Fellows have the opportunity to focus their training in specific career tracks including subspecialty clinics, inpatient neurology, and neurocritical care.

Upon completion of the program, our fellows will have the skills to care for a diverse patient population with a wide range of complex neurological disorders including neurological emergencies and critical illness. The aim is to provide recent graduates (or experienced providers new to neurology) with the skills, knowledge and experience needed to work independently and effectively in this dynamic and rapidly changing field.

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is located in the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire; a diverse social, cultural, and artistic community that offers a wide range of year-round outdoor recreational activities with easy access to major metropolitan areas. We look forward to learning about you and what you will bring to our program and our community!

  

Curriculum:

The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Fellowship in Neurology and Neurocritical Care is driven by hands-on, experiential learning. Core rotations include experience in ambulatory, inpatient, emergency and critical care settings. A research and quality improvement project is a key component of graduation.

The curriculum integrates didactic training within clinical rotations that feature a mix of practice-based patient care, case-based learning, one-on-one mentoring and supervision, and approximately 8 hours weekly of didactic sessions. Content is aligned with education and practice guidelines supported by the American Academy of Neurology and the Neurocritical Care Society for the education of post-graduate residents and fellows. Fellows are taught to master the following major areas in neurological science:

• Signs and symptoms in clinical neurology
• The Neurological Exam
• Localization in Neurology
• Diagnostic methodology
• Treatment of neurological diseases
• Neurodiagnostic studies
• Lumbar puncture
• Neuroradiology (CT, MRI, Interventional Radiology)
• Headache disorders
• Cerebrovascular disease
• Infections of the nervous system
• MS and related disorders
• Systemic and Metabolic Disease
• Movement disorders
• Epilepsy
• Nerve and Muscle Disease
• Ataxias
• Neurological Pain syndromes
• Dementias and disorders of behavior
• Neurocritical Care: