Neurophysiology Fellowship Application(PDF format)

The Neuromuscular Fellowship Program is an ACGME-certified program in Neuromuscular Medicine.  Our training program is one of the first to recieve this subspecialty certification.  The one-year program consists of clinical training in neuromuscular diseases and performance of electromyography (EMG) and related techniques. 

The neuromuscular fellows spend their mornings in the neuromuscular clinics at the Aston Center.  In the neuromuscular clinics, they see patients referred from the North Texas region who have a wide variety of neuromuscular diseases such as myasthenia gravis, muscular dystrophy, peripheral neuropathy, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.  Three clinics a week are sponsored by the Muscular Dystrophy Association.  In the afternoon, the neuromuscular fellows work in the EMG laboratory at Aston Center.  By the end of their training, fellows are able to perform EMG and nerve conduction studies independently.  Patients in the EMG lab are referred both from the neuromuscular clinics and from other services such as orthopedics, otorhinolaryngology, medicine, and neurosurgery.  Fellows also have the opportunity to learn and perform quantitiative clinical autonomic function studies.  All clinical activities are performed under the direct supervision of the neuromuscular faculty. 

The fellows are instructed on the interpretation of nerve and muscle biopsies at the Neuromuscular Service Biopsy Conference on Tuesday evenings.  Other regular neuromuscular conferences include monthly Neuromuscular Journal Club, the weekly Neurophysiology didactic lecture Series, and EMG Case Conference every Friday morning at which time all interesting EMG studies from the previous week are reviewed.  At the end of one year of training, the neuromuscular and combined clinical neurophysiology fellows will be competent in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with neuromuscular disease, the performance and interpretation of EMGs, and basic reading of muscle and nerve biopsies.   The Neuromuscular section also organizes the Carrell-Krusen symposium, a nationally-recognized scientific conference on neuromuscular disorders held each year in Dallas.