Neurology Residency Program

Program Director: Michael Xu, MD-PhD
Residency Coordinator: Erika A. Coleman
E-Mail: armc-neurologyresidency@armc.sbcounty.gov
Telephone: (909) 580-6276
Address: 400 North Pepper Ave., Colton, CA 92324

Click here to read the Welcome Letter from our Program Director!

Program Overview ​
The Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (ARMC) Neurology Residency Program offers a categorical training program in Neurology. Under the close supervision of the faculty at ARMC (primary site and sponsoring institution), Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Fullerton Neurology and Headache Center, and The Parkinson's and Movement Disorders Institute, residents will experience clinical education through a broad experience in inpatient and outpatient neurology and the neurological subspecialties.

To complement the residents’ education in the clinical and basic neurosciences, the program offers a robust didactic curriculum: morning report, epilepsy and neuromuscular disease conference, neuroimaging conference, neurology emergencies course, board review course, journal club, neurosurgery grand rounds, stroke quality improvement conference (as a resident member of the stroke committee) and vascular neurology conference.

As delineated in the Program Block Diagram linked below, PGY-1 residents complete rotations in inpatient internal medicine, clinical neurophysiology (EEG and EMG), inpatient neurology and outpatient neurology subspecialty clinics. PGY-2 residents rotate in clinical neurophysiology, headache, inpatient neurology, movement disorders, night float and outpatient neurology subspecialty clinics. PGY-3 residents take on progressively more clinical responsibility in inpatient neurology, and rotate in child neurology, elective, headache, movement disorders and outpatient neurology subspecialty clinics. PGY-4 residents serve as chief residents in inpatient neurology, and rotate in clinical neurophysiology, electives, headache, movement disorders, neurosurgery and neurocritical care, outpatient neurology subspecialty clinics and psychiatry.

Residents beginning in PGY-3, rotate in three electives during the program to address individual goals and/or to prepare for entering clinical practice or a fellowship after graduation. Electives are offered in neurology of aging, neuro-infectious disease, neuro-oncology, neuro-ophthalmology, neuro-otology, neuropathology, neurorehabilitation, and pain management. Residents beginning in PGY-2, have their own weekly half-day longitudinal or “continuity” clinic in addition to clinics in the neurological subspecialties during the residency training. Residents have a four-week vacation per year of training. Vacation is taken on non-internal medicine rotations, except night float rotation.

Click here to read the Program Curriculum and Block Diagram.

Program Goal
The goal of the Neurology Residency Program is to educate the next generation of neurologists to become compassionate and competent specialists in the exciting and evolving specialty of Neurology.

Leadership and Institutions
Please use the following links to learn more about the program.

• Core Faculty
• Program and Institutions
• Program Core Faculty Time Allocation
• Program Faculty Leadership
• Site Directors

Resident Eligibility and Selection
Applicants

The selection process is designed to be consistent and fair, based upon academic credentials, letters of recommendation and personal interview. All first-year applicants must use ERAS to apply.

Resident applicants must meet the following qualifications for appointment to the Neurology Residency Program:

1. Graduates of Medical Schools in the U.S. and Canada accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), or
2. Graduates of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine in the United States accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation), or
3. Graduates of Medical Schools outside the United States and Canada who have received a currently valid certificate from the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical graduates prior to appointment.