We offer fellows broad experience in all aspects of neuromuscular medicine. As a smaller program, we pride ourselves on being able to individualize each fellow's educational experience. We love to teach and take great pride in helping our fellows develop into neuromuscular experts.
Our program is a great environment to learn nerve and muscle pathology with an engaged, friendly and knowledgeable group of clinicians. I always look forward to working with my neuromuscular colleagues, whether it is at our monthly neuromuscular pathology conferences, or simply connecting to work through a difficult diagnosis on a patient.
The fellowship program provides in depth training for you to become a confident neuromuscular physician. You will get experience in providing care for a wide range of neuromuscular conditions and EMG skills. The group is very collaborative and will provide abundant learning opportunities. I was a medical student at UVM before returning after my fellowship training and continue to find the culture to be an open and fun place to work.
Despite serving a largely rural population, our program exposes fellows to a wide breadth of neuromuscular disorders, all while in a fun and engaging learning environment. The atmosphere is warm and collegial, and our faculty are all very approachable. Having been a neurology resident here myself, I appreciated the fantastic teaching and mentorship the division provides and hope to create a similar experience for future trainees.
I would describe the Neuromuscular Fellowship here as fun, collaborative and rigorous. The fellowship is centered around five neuromuscular attendings and a neuropathologist with a wide breadth of training and varied research interests. As a result, the program offers training in everything from neuromuscular disease, EMG including single fiber, ultrasound, and botox to muscle and nerve pathology. The experience spans the outpatient clinics, electrophysiology lab, inpatient consults and multidisciplinary disease specific clinics. Our group prioritizes learning in a collegial environment, is willing to adapt the fellowship to specific interests and recognizes importance of work life balance. We run this fellowship because we enjoy working with fellows who are passionate about neuromuscular medicine.
The Neuromuscular Medicine Fellowship provides advanced training in clinical management for both adult and pediatric patients, focusing on disorders of the peripheral nerves, muscles, neuromuscular junction and motor neurons. Fellows are trained on a variety of investigative testing, including EMG/NCS, SFEMG, nerve/muscle US, autonomic testing, muscle/nerve biopsy interpretation and skin biopsy performance and interpretation. Fellows have the opportunity to participate in multidisciplinary clinics, as well as take part in clinical and translational research.
Shawn Jorgensen, MD
Trainees in this fellowship are offered comprehensive didactic and practical neuromuscular ultrasound workshops, including hands-on scanning opportunities that cover the most important, current and evidence-based uses of neuromuscular ultrasound in the modern electrodiagnostic lab.
