Neurohospitalist Core Competencies

Jana J. Wold, Department of Neurology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Jetter Robertson, Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Jerome A. Jeevarajan, Department of Neurology, University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, USA.
Molly G. Knox, Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ, USA.
Prateek Thatikunta, Department of Neurology, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA, USA.
Guillermo E. Solorzano, Department of Neurology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Kristin Galetta, Department of Neurology and Neurosciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Shefali Dujari, Department of Neurology and Neurosciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Tarini Goyal, Department of Neurology, New York-Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Matthew E. Ehrlich, Department of Neurology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Jonathan P. Donnelly, Rochester Regional Health, Rochester, NY, USA.
Elizabeth Marriott, Department of Neurology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Vishal A. Mandge, Department of Neurology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Roshni S. Dhoot, Department of Neurology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Matthew W. Luedke, Department of Neurology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Matthew B. Maas, Department of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
Margaret Y. Yu, Department of Neurology, Jesse Brown Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chicago, IL, US.
Michel Toledano, Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN, USA.
Rafid Mustafa, Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN, USA.
Jamie L. Palaganas, Department of Clinical Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA.
Kathryn Kvam, Department of Neurology and Neurosciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Rachelle Dugue, Department of Neurology and Neurosciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Ethan Meltzer, Department of Neurology, University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, Austin, TX, USA.
Lahoud Touma, Department of Neurosciences, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de l'Universite de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Maulik P. Shah, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco Weill Institute for Neurosciences, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Vanja C. Douglas, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco Weill Institute for Neurosciences, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Karen Orjuela, Department of Neurology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
Brian J. Scott, Department of Neurology and Neurosciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Joshua P. Klein, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
David J. Likosky, Department of Neurology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Jennifer R. Simpson, Department of Neurology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, USA.
Megan B. Richie, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco Weill Institute for Neurosciences, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Abstract

The Neurohospitalist Core Competencies comprise a set of competency-based learning objectives that encapsulate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of neurohospitalitists who specialize in the care of hospitalized patients with neurologic conditions. These competencies serve to characterize the rapidly expanding field of neurohospitalist medicine. The 27 chapters are divided into 3 sections entitled: neurological conditions, clinical interventions and interpretation of ancillary studies, and neurohospitalist role in the healthcare system. Each individual learning objective in the chapters describes a specific concept with an action verb to illustrate the behavior that the neurohospitalist exhibits. The individual neurohospitalist may not exhibit mastery in each of the topics included as individual practices vary in scope and practice pattern. A few examples of how the complete set of competencies may be used include in the creation of curricula for neurohospitalist fellowships, to assist in defining the scope of practice of neurohospitalists for administrative leaders of hospitals and departments, and in influencing the direction of further research and quality improvement in the field.