Curriculum Innovations: A Novel Neurology Clinician-Educator Program.

Background And Objectives: Neurology residents serve as frontline teachers for junior trainees but often lack formal training in medical education. We developed a novel longitudinal curriculum to enhance the teaching skills and educational leadership of residents interested in pursuing careers as clinician-educators.

Methods And Curriculum Description: We developed and piloted a Neurology Clinician-Educator Program (NCEP) with the following goals: (1) improve resident satisfaction with opportunities to develop teaching skills, (2) improve resident satisfaction with opportunities to transition into a clinician-educator role after training, and (3) enhance resident teaching skills using evidence-based strategies.

Implementing Dementia Care Management into routine care: protocol for a cohort study in Siegen-Wittgenstein, Germany (RoutineDeCM).

Introduction: Dementia Care Management is an evidence-based model of care. It has proven its efficacy and cost-effectiveness and has been applied to different settings and different target groups. However, it is not available in routine care in Germany.

Leonard Rowntree, Louis Wilson, Fielding Garrison, and the origins of teaching medical history at the Mayo Clinic.

A visiting surgeon described his disappointment with an aspect of the Mayo Clinic in 1914, stating that there was "the almost lack of anything that could be dignified by the term 'lecture.'" One year later, the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research was founded. By 1917, the foundation declared history of medicine a graduate-level subject, and history of medicine questions were included in final oral examinations.

The Auxiliary to the American Academy of Neurology.

The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) was founded in 1948, and the Women's Auxiliary to the AAN was founded shortly thereafter. We reviewed historical archives of the AAN and Women's Auxiliary and interviewed past Auxiliary leaders to understand the perception and roles of neurologists' spouses. The Women's Auxiliary to the AAN was originally formed for the wives of neurologist Academy members with the intention of facilitating social and intragroup relationships.

History of migraine.

Migraine symptoms were described in ancient Babylonia, and supernatural forces were felt to play a role in etiology and treatment. This changed in the Greco-Roman period, when the (dis)balance of humors was considered in (patho)physiology and treatment based on this. Aretaeus distinguished between cephalalgia, cephalea, and heterocrania.

Teaming beyond the clinical environment - building collective commitment across graduate medical education.

This commentary provides evidence and expert opinion on effective relationships and communication strategies for trainee and graduate medical education leaders. The authors also argue that consistent communication and alignment of goals between trainee leadership and graduate medical education leadership are essential components of a successful collaboration that promotes trainee well-being.

Women in the Mayo Clinic Department of Neurology in its early years.

The stories of early women physicians in the field of neurology are seldom discussed. Understanding the history behind women in neurology can inform our current practice and uncover the possible origins of gender disparities in academic neurology. Utilizing annual section/department reports and other primary sources, we describe the first women trainees and staff who broke gender barriers to train and work in the Mayo Clinic Department of Neurology.

Paroxysmal Panting: On Respiratory Crisis and Other Respiratory Curiosities in the Aftermath of Encephalitis Lethargica.

Pandemics in the early 20th century (and now with SARS-CoV-2) have been dominated by respiratory viruses damaging the lungs. Less is known about abnormal respiratory patterns from brain inflammation. One of the first descriptions of respiratory rhythm abnormalities was seen with an acute attack of epidemic encephalitis (encephalitis lethargica), and reports appeared soon after the original description in 1921.

Dr. Betty Clements: Breaking Gender Barriers in the Air Force and Neurology.

Women currently make up 45.9% of neurology residents and fellows, although little is known about the individual women who broke gender barriers to train as neurologists. Grace Elizabeth Betty Clements (1918-1965) was the first woman trainee at the Mayo Clinic to practice neurology and later became a founder of the Barrow Neurological Institute.

Robert Wartenberg and the American Academy of Neurology.

Robert Wartenberg (1887-1956) was born in Grodno (in present-day Belarus) and received his medical degree in Germany in 1919. He enjoyed a productive career at the University of Freiburg until 1935, when he fled Nazi Germany for the United States. Bernard Sachs, with whom he had worked during a Rockefeller fellowship in 1926, helped him secure a position at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco in 1936.

Primer on the In-home Teleneurologic Examination: A COVID-19 Pandemic Imperative.

It is imperative in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic that we serve our patients by implementing teleneurology visits for those who require neurologic advice but do not need to be seen face to face. The authors propose a thorough, practical, in-home, teleneurologic examination that can be completed without the assistance of an on-the-scene medical professional and can be tailored to the clinical question. We hope to assist trainees and practicing neurologists doing patient video visits for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on what can, rather than what cannot, be easily examined.

A Journey Through 100 Years of Vestibular Schwannoma Surgery at Mayo Clinic: A Historical Illustrative Case Series.

: The present state of vestibular schwannoma (VS) management is the product of over a century of technical progress by revolutionary surgeons who transformed a once perilous operation. At the beginning of the 1900s, patients who did not succumb to their disease were treated exclusively with surgery, which itself was almost assuredly devastating. Through the pioneering work of surgeons such as Harvey Cushing, Walter Dandy, William House, and others, safer surgical approaches were established with concurrent advances in neuromonitoring, neuroanesthesia, radiology, and adoption of the operating microscope.

COVID-19 and Headache Medicine: A Narrative Review of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug (NSAID) and Corticosteroid Use.

Objective: To summarize the current literature on non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug and corticosteroid use during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, recognizing that these are commonly used treatments in the field of headache medicine.

Background: The use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and corticosteroids in patients during the COVID-19 pandemic has been a controversial topic within the medical community and international and national health organizations. Lay press and social media outlets have circulated opinions on this topic despite the fact that the evidence for or against the use of these medications is sparse.

Evaluating the educational effectiveness of an 8-week patient management course for surgical interns: A nine-year analysis.

Introduction: Our general surgery program mandates an 8-week "intern school" (IS) for matriculating surgery interns. The course consists of a pre-test, didactics, and a post-test. We hypothesized IS exam performance would correlate with American Board of Surgery In Training Examination (ABSITE) scores.

The Mary Walker effect: Mary Broadfoot Walker.

Mary Broadfoot Walker (1888-1974) was the first to demonstrate the 'Mary Walker effect' describing the weakness of other muscle groups following release of the arteriovenous occlusion of an unrelated exercising muscle group in patients with myasthenia gravis, which led to the search for a circulating causative agent for myasthenia gravis. She was the first to clearly demonstrate that strength temporarily improved in patients with myasthenia gravis with physostigmine or Prostigmin (neostigmine). This dramatic treatment response has been erroneously termed the 'Mary Walker effect'.

Carotid Cavernous Fistula Mimicking Hemicrania Continua: A Case Report.

Background: Hemicrania continua is a primary headache disorder characterized by a continuous, unilateral headache associated with ipsilateral cranial autonomic features that responds to indomethacin. By definition, the symptoms are not referable to an underlying structural pathology. However, several cases of secondary hemicrania continua related to underlying structural lesions have been reported.

Timing of milestone competency acquisition in neurology residency: What by when?

Objective: To determine the stage of training at which neurology residents should achieve individual elements of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education neurology Milestones and to examine the relationship between perceived importance of Milestones and the stage by which they should be achieved.

Methods: A modified Delphi technique was used to establish consensus postgraduate year (PGY) expectations for neurology Milestone competencies across 3 geographically and administratively distinct Mayo Clinic neurology residency programs. Timing expectations were examined for relationships to perceived importance of the individual Milestones and effects of participant characteristics.

Adolph Sahs: A neurologist who could take on still another job.

Adolph Louis Sahs (1906-1986) became chair of the Department of Neurology at the University of Iowa in 1948 and retired in 1974. Through his academic neurology organizational skills, coordination of multicenter research on subarachnoid hemorrhage, and education of more than 50 neurologists, he helped bring the department to national and international prominence. Sahs was one of the founders of the American Academy of Neurology.

Denise Louis-Bar: The eponymous woman of Louis-Bar syndrome.

In 1941, Denise Louis-Bar described a child with ataxia and telangiectasia in The following decade led to an expanse in publications about the disorder with concomitant controversy regarding naming of the disease. While ataxia-telangiectasia is the predominant term used for the disease, Louis-Bar syndrome persists in the medical literature. Despite the persistence of this eponym, little is known about Denise Louis-Bar.