Child Neurology Residency

Thank you for your interest in our child neurology residency program. The Corewell Health Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital/Michigan State University Child Neurology Residency program at Corewell Health Helen DeVos Children's Hospital offers training dedicated to all aspects of child neurology, including a rich clinical and research experience. Upon completion of the program, residents will be well prepared for clinical practice, a career in education, and/ or as clinical researchers. Two residents are accepted each year into the five-year categorical program. The program includes the standard two years of pediatrics residency followed by one year of adult and two years of child neurology training that are integrated.

The program will be a dynamic experience, challenging you through complex clinical care, learning and teaching didactics, and involvement in basic science or clinical research endeavors. It includes didactics with pediatric residents during the first two years and with adult neurology residents during the final three years.

We think you will be attracted to our program for several reasons. First, our clinicians love to teach and share a passion for learning collaboratively. Second, we have a great depth of subspecialty expertise, and our backgrounds are very diverse. Third, your education and development are our main goals. We will invest the time and resources to maximize your skills in clinical care, research, education, and administrative roles.  Read our program aims.

Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Corewell Health Pediatric Neurosciences Center cares for children and adolescents experiencing symptoms related to the brain, spinal cord, or peripheral nervous system, to help identify the diagnosis and create a personalized plan for treatment. Our highly specialized team of Pediatric Neurology and Neurosurgery providers treat a variety of neurological disorders in the inpatient and outpatient settings. We have subspecialty expertise in epilepsy, cerebral palsy, neuromuscular disorders, stroke, autoimmune neurological diseases, as well as other conditions such as brain and spinal cord tumors, movement disorders, headache and pain, congenital neurological conditions and neurocritical illness such as traumatic injury or anoxic injuries. In addition to neurology and neurosurgery, the extended team includes neurodevelopmental pediatricians, biochemical genetics, pediatric neuropsychology, and neurocritical care specialists. We were the first in the state to offer pediatric neurocritical care services that includes a post-hospital follow-up clinic and stroke clinic.