Education Research: Rewarding Our Educators: Design and Evaluation of a Program to Fund Teaching in Neurology.

Background And Objectives: Pressures on academic physician educators to generate clinical revenue or research grants may threaten faculty engagement as teachers. Neurology has historically prized its outstanding educators, but programs that provide financial support for teaching are lacking. We developed an opt-in, financial, teaching incentive program in an academic neurology department and evaluated its impact on faculty experience, motivation, and identity.

Differences in Interfacility Transfer from Emergency Department and Inpatient Services for Inpatient Neurologic Care.

Introduction: Interhospital transfer is an important mechanism for improving access to specialized neurologic care but there are large gaps in our understanding of interhospital transfer for the management of non-stroke-related neurologic disease.

Methods: This observational study included consecutive patients admitted to an adult academic general neurology service via interhospital transfer from July 1, 2015 to July 1, 2017. Characteristics of the referring hospital and transferred patients were obtained through the American Hospital Association Directory, a hospital transfer database maintained by the accepting hospital, and the electronic medical record.

An Approach to Successful Development of Clinician-Scientists in Neurology: The NINDS R25 Experience.

Objective: Training clinician-scientists is a primary objective of many academic neurology departments, as these individuals are uniquely positioned to perform insightful clinical or laboratory-based research informed both by clinical knowledge and their own experiences caring for patients. Despite its importance, training clinician-scientists has perhaps never been so challenging. The National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) R25 program was designed in an attempt to support these individuals, decrease the time needed to obtain National Institutes of Health K awards, and to help educate a cohort of trainees preparing for a career in academic neurology.