Consensus Competencies for Postgraduate Fellowship Training in Global Neurology

Nicoline Schiess1, Violet Kulo1, Pria Anand1

  • 1From the Department of Neurology (N.S., A.-C.L.M., D.R.S.), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Department of Health Professions Education (V.K.), University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; Department of Neurology (P.A., A.C.-A.), Boston University and Boston Medical Center, MA; Department of Child Neurology (D.R.B.), University of Rochester Medical Center, NY; Department of Educational Psychology (D.R.B.), University of Zambia, Lusaka; Department of Neurology (A.L.B., F.C.C.), University of California, San Francisco; Department of Neurology (G.L.B., M.K.), University of Rochester Medical Center, NY; University of Zambia School of Medicine (G.L.B., M.K., O.K.S.), Lusaka; SEARCH (P.C.), Institute of HIV Research and Innovation, Bangkok, Thailand; University Teaching Hospital (L.C.C., D.R.S.), Lusaka, Zambia; Hospital Dr. Sótero del Río (I.E.), Clínica Las Condes, Santiago, Chile; Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas (A.F.), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía (A.F.), Secretaria de Salud, Mexico City, Mexico; Department of Paediatrics and Neonatology (A.K.), B.J. Government Medical College, Pune, India; Department of Neurology (F.J.M., A.A.M.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Department of Internal Medicine (A.A.M.), Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda; Department of Neurology (C.B.O.C.), Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Department of Medicine (A.O.), College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; Department of Child Neurology (A.A.P.), Boston Children's Hospital, MA; Department of Neurology (M.R.), University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia; Department of Neurology (O.K.S.), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Department of Neurology (S.S.), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Department of Internal Medicine (S.A.T.), Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD; Department of Neurology (K.T.T.), Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; Department of Neurology (N.V.), Stanford University Medical School, Palo Alto, CA; and Department of Neurology (J.Z.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle.

Neurology
|March 30, 2023
PubMed
Summary

A modified Delphi approach defined 47 global neurology competencies for advanced training. This framework will guide the development and evaluation of future global neurology programs and trainees.

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