Duration: 1 year (13 four‑week blocks).
Structure
- Block 1 – Headache Boot Camp: orientation, foundational didactics, supervised patient care with extended visit time, core procedures.
- 6 blocks – Headache Medicine Clinics: continuity clinics; longitudinal panel management; built‑in research/catch‑up time; optional primary‑specialty continuity (as available).
“I will work with future fellows to build confidence in directing patient care while strengthening their skills in leading clinical teams.”
- Vimala Vajjala MD, core faculty
- 5 blocks – Electives: tailored to goals in behavioral health, concussion, CSF disorders, neuroradiology, neurosurgery, obesity medicine, orofacial pain, pediatric headache, PM&R, sleep medicine.
- PTO/CME: 5 weeks total scheduled across the year (3 weeks PTO + 2 weeks CME/professional development).
Didactics & conferences
- Case conferences.
- Journal club.
- Procedural workshops.
- Imaging/radiology rounds.
- UCNS board review sessions.
Procedures & therapeutics (graduated competency)
- Peripheral nerve and trigger‑point injections (e.g., greater/lesser occipital; supraorbital; supratrochlear).
- onabotulinumtoxinA for chronic migraine.
- Infusion protocols.
- External neuromodulation.