Original Article Views of Recently First-Certified US Child Neurologists on Their Residency Training

We surveyed child neurologists first certified in ‘‘Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology’ ’ by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) between 2001 and 2010 using a 24-item questionnaire. Respondents (n 204, 54 % response rate) were between the ages of 30 and 59 years (54 % male), and 68 % completed adult neurology training in a 10- to 12-month, primarily inpatient block. Sixty-two percent of the sample completed subspecialty fellowship training and 82 % currently reported practicing within a hospital or hospital-based/owned clinic. Current practice data showed just 3 % provide general neurology services to adults. A majority reported using adult neurology residency training ‘‘less than weekly’ ’ and believed the ideal model for residency training in diagnosis and management of both common and rare neurologic conditions would involve less time in adult neurology and more time (mean 6 months) in child neurology, most prominently in genetics and developmental and behavioral areas