While academic centers have traditionally valued faculty research and educational accomplishments, clinical excellence is often assumed or underappreciated. Accordingly, neurology residency programs frequently offer structured pathways for aspiring clinician-scientists or educators, but few offer dedicated training to launch residents into academic careers focused on clinical mastery. Guided by self-regulated learning principles and the Master Adaptive Learner framework, the aim of this curriculum was to equip neurology postgraduate year (PGY)-4 residents with the foundational skills of the master clinician by advancing the following: (1) clinical acumen and diagnostic reasoning; (2) a scholarly and evidence-informed approach to their work; (3) outstanding communication, professionalism, and humanism; and (4) effective navigation and leadership within complex health care systems.
Richie et al. (Mon,) studied this question.