Our Movement Disorders fellowship is one or two years in length. Our long established Fellowship program,
initiated in 1990s, provides comprehensive Clinical Movement Disorders subspecialty training. (There is no ACGME accreditation for a movement disorders
subspecialty at this time.)
Interviews in spring/summer in calendar year prior to start. Rank list deadline for SF Match
is (typically) in September. Movement Disorders Fellowship begins here in July of
the following calendar year.
Eligible candidates
Will have completed Neurology Residency program in good standing prior to start date.
Clinical letters of recommendations from an accredited Neurology Residency program.
Augusta University requires a J-1 Visa.
Subspecialties
Clinical and research training by three attending Movement Disorder specialists at
the Medical College of Georgia.
A wide catchment of Parkinson’s Disease evaluations via our Parkinson’s Center of
Excellence. MCG was the first Parkinson’s Foundation Center of Excellence in Georgia
or South Carolina.
Atypical Parkinsonism syndromes
Disabling Essential Tremor
Dystonia syndromes
Huntington’s Disease
Ataxia syndromes
Heterogeneous additional movement disorders
Additional Memory disorders exposure is available to interested Fellows, from Movement
and Memory Director and specialist Dr. John Morgan, via the “Georgia Memory Net” dementia
evaluation initiative clinic at Medical College of Georgia.