Clinical Settings

Our residents serve incredibly diverse patient populations and are exposed to a large and broad range of clinical experiences. As such, this is not a "one-program-one-hospital experience, but rather a program that affords its trainees with a rich collection of complementary clinical settings.

• Parkland Hospital
  

  At nearly twice the size of the old hospital, new Parkland is one of the busiest public hospitals in the nation with more than 1 million patient visits each year. It is designed to meet the ever-changing needs of Dallas County, one of the largest, fastest-growing regions in the country.

  Parkland is the primary teaching facility at UT Southwestern. The Neurology Department staffs a number of services, including the epilepsy monitoring unit (accredited as a Level 4 Epilepsy Center by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers), as well as primary inpatient services in general neurology, vascular neurology, and neurocritical care. Parkland is certified by the Joint Commission as a Comprehensive Stroke Center.

  Our neurology resident outpatient continuity clinics are housed in Parkland’s ambulatory care center; EEGs, EMG/NCS, autonomic testing, and chemodenervation for dystonia and headache are readily accessible for clinic patients; residents and fellows participate in the performance or interpretation of each of these procedures during training. A new, state-of-the-art Sleep Center opened its doors in the summer of 2020; this will be a site for resident and fellow education as well. Serving our patients at Parkland is an enormous privilege, and this hospital holds a special place in the hearts of our residents and faculty.

• William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital
  

  In 2020, Clements University Hospital was named the Best Hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth by U.S. News & World Report for the fourth consecutive year. Since opening in December 2014, Clements has offered world-class medical care in numerous medical and surgical subspecialties. Neurology delivers ‘round the clock emergency room and inpatient consultative services in the main hospital. The 12-story third tower serves as the clinical home for the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute and adds operating rooms, interventional suites.

• James W. Aston Ambulatory Care Center
  

  Aston is a nine-story outpatient building where most faculty general neurology and subspecialty clinics take place, including neuromuscular medicine, movement disorders, autonomic neurology, epilepsy, behavioral neurology, neuroimmunology, general neurology, vascular neurology, and headache medicine.

  Neurology residents have numerous outpatient rotations at Aston over the course of their training, and outpatient-based neurology fellowships take place there as well.

• Children's Health
  

  Children’s Health is home to the only academic healthcare system in North Texas that is dedicated exclusively to the comprehensive care of children. Children’s Health is one of the top pediatric hospitals in the country and is the fifth largest healthcare provider in the nation. The Pediatric Neurology Division at Children’s takes care of patients with conditions across the neurological and developmental spectrum, from birth to early adulthood. We have primary and consultative inpatient services at Children’s, as well as a busy epilepsy monitoring unit and numerous subspecialty outpatient neurology clinic.

• Scottish Rite for Children
  

  Scottish Rite for Children, one mile south of UT Southwestern, is recognized internationally for clinical care and research in chronic neurological and orthopedic disorders. Neurology residents gain outpatient exposure to rare chronic neurological disorders in Scottish Rite for Children’s ultra-subspecialized subspecialty clinics. This is one of the many unique experiences that makes our program so educationally rich and diverse.

• Veterans Affairs North Texas Health Care System
  

  The Dallas VA hospital is located south of downtown Dallas and serves a 30-county area. Neurology residents provide inpatient neurology consultation and participate in outpatient movement disorders, neuromuscular disorders, autonomic disorders, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, sleep disorders, and general neurology clinics. Additionally, residents spend time in several procedure clinics, including chemodenervation for migraine and movement disorders, EMG/NCS, and autonomic function testing.