 Hi, I'm Carolyn Cronin, the residency program director here at University of Maryland. The goal of our program is to train residents that can go on and be successful in any of the many careers available in neurology today. To do that, we offer a wide breadth of experience in multiple different locations. University of Maryland is a tertiary care center, so we get commonplace neurologic disorders and we also get patients transferred in to us from outside hospitals, both on the inpatient and the outpatient side, who either need a higher level of care, such as is offered in our neuro ICU, our epilepsy monitoring unit, tertiary stroke care, where we collaborate with our interventional radiology colleagues, or alternatively on the outpatient side, we frequently get patients referred from other neurologists to our subspecialists for more specialized care, and those are very interesting patients that our residents get to be involved in as well. In addition to the clinical experience, we have multiple didactics throughout the day to ensure that residents get a broad exposure to different areas of neurology. We have a morning learning session. We have midday didactics. We have a great Grand Rounds series and a case conference led by the residents. The residents have lots of opportunities to be involved in scholarly and research activities as well. Multiple of our faculty have research programs, both in clinical research studies, as well as basic science labs that residents can become involved in, or if they have ideas for their own projects, we can facilitate that. All of the residents are assigned an advisor when they first start residency, and that person's role is to help them identify the best path for them in residency in terms of career goals and projects they might be interested in, and to help recruit other faculty to also mentor those residents, and I think that goes a long way to helping people achieve their goals and feel comfortable here. So I'm Neil Porter. I've been on the faculty for over about 25 years, and I think one of the real strong points of our residency really is the breadth of experience that the residents get. So we have the Main University Hospital, which is a tertiary care hospital. So we see interesting patients from all around the state, as well as the states of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and also the District of Columbia. The residents also have a great experience in the clinic. So they see their own patients, which is a little bit more bread and butter neurology, but they also get the chance to work with the attendings, so they'll be able to see more specialized patients. And in addition to that, we have a great facility, Shock Trauma, which is really our flagship trauma center. So you'll see patients that you really won't get a chance to see in most other centers. But also we have the VA Medical Center, which is actually adjacent to the Main Hospital. So it's a whole different population of patients. So we also have a rehab hospital that's actually not very far away. It's about three miles away. So the residents get a chance to see patients in all these different settings, and it really are really different experiences that I think that is in some ways unique for the University of Maryland. Hi. My name is Nicole Hartman. I'm a PGY4 resident at the University of Maryland Medical Center. So I think what sticks out to this program the most for me is working with our attendings. They're all so approachable and easy to go to. The specialists in every single specialty you could ever imagine for neurology. And with all those difficult patients, they're just a text or a phone call away. And no matter the time of day, you can always reach out to them. Also they also help us get opportunities. I went to an epilepsy mini fellowship during my time here. And that was because one of the attendings suggested it for me. So they're always willing to help us out. And I think that's probably one of the highlights of our programs. Also living in Baltimore was definitely a new experience for me. Came from the Northeast. What I like about Baltimore is that it's a big city that kind of has a small town feel. There's a lot of places to go, good restaurants and breweries when we're able to do that again. So there's a lot of what I like to do a lot is camping. So there's a lot of great parks and outdoor nature within a just a driving distance in Virginia and West Virginia. So those are probably my favorite parts about Baltimore and being a resident University of Maryland.