The Stanford (Calif.) University School of Medicine boasts the highest number of neurologist graduates in the country, according to the Association of University Professors of Neurology data.
Here are five things to know:
1. In the past five years, 8 percent to 14 percent of the school's graduating classes entered postgraduate training in clinical neuroscience.
2. Most of those students pursued pediatric neurology.
3. The medical school teaches a bench-to-bedside approach, offering basic, clinical and translational research opportunities.
4. Stanford pediatric neurologists, neurosurgeons and neuroscientists have recently developed Optogenetics, a tool that genetically encodes molecules inserted into mice brains. Researchers then use light to activate neurons, which will advance brain circuit research.
5. The medical school has already created the Stanford Concussion and Brain Performance Center and the Pediatric Center for Brain Engineering.
"Our physician-scientists see a large number of children, including those with complex diagnoses that are rarely seen elsewhere," said Paul Fisher, MD, chief of pediatric neurology at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford and Stanford Children's Health. "This has created a great passion and motivation for students to enter this much-needed specialty."