Neurology MOC 2021 Online Review
This Neurology MOC Online comprehensive review is designed to help you pass your Neurology board exams as well as to update your clinical knowledge base. Emphasis is on evidence-based medicine and board-relevant standards of care, incorporating new concepts and treatments. The course includes lectures that review the entire field of Neurology. As a result, it provides a good review for the ABPN MOC exams or for physicians in practice wanting a thorough update. The course includes didactic lectures, discussion of clinical vignettes, embedded questions for discussion at the end of each topic, and dedicated question and answer sessions. Emphasis is on evidence-based medicine and board-relevant standards of care incorporating new concepts, guidelines, and treatments.
Objectives
At the conclusion of this course each participant should be able to:
- Identify and discuss clinically relevant aspects of neurochemistry, neurophysiology, and neuropharmacology
- Recognize and describe all major neurological disorders and important variants
- Discuss developmental disorders and scientific underpinnings
- Distinguish abnormal behavioral and personality changes
- Describe the use of appropriate psychopharmacology agents for all major neurologic disorders and important interactions
- Identify and plan treatment for alcoholism and substance abuse
- Identify and distinguish between altered states of consciousness and memory disorders
- Implement appropriate primary and secondary stroke prevention strategies
Faculty and Topics
Erik Ensrud, MD
Professor of Neurology
University of Missouri
Anterior Horn Cell, Muscle Disease/ Myopathies, Peripheral Neuropathies, Neuromuscular Junction, MS, and Demyelinating Diseases, Spine and Spinal Cord, EMG Overview, Focal Neuropathies
Brian Krause, MD
Practicing Psychiatrist
Fort Royal, Virginia
Substance Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders
Charles Marcuccilli, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Chicago
Epilepsy, Sleep and EEG I-III, Infections Developmental Disorders, Neurochemistry, and Neurotransmitters, Neurogenetics
Muhammad Nashatizadeh, MD†
Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology University of Kansas
Movement Disorders I (Parkinsonism), Movement Disorders II (Tremor / Myoclonus), Movement Disorders III (Hyperkinetic), Stroke Syndromes, Overview of Stroke, Neurocutaneous Disorders, Dementia and Ataxia, Aphasia, Apraxia and Agnosia, Autonomic Disorders, Clinical Neurotoxicology, Encephalopathy and Coma, Acute Ischemic Stroke, Intracranial Hemorrhage
Dwight Owens, MD
Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Morehouse School of Medicine
Psychopharmacology I and II
Sanjeev Sivakumar MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
University of South Carolina, Greenville
Brain and Spinal Cord Trauma, Intracranial Hypertension, and Brain Death, Neurocritical Care
Release Date: November 22, 2021
