My name is Terry Li, a fortunate survivor of neurology residency at Syracuse June 2010, and completed a clinical neurophysiology fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago (affectionately deemed the University of Indians and Chinese). I currently am a neurology attending at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, IL since August 2011. Our neurology group, Advocate Medical Group, is responsible in teaching the medical students of Rosalind Franklin University and currently an associate professor at Rosalind Franklin University. Currently I am an active participant in medical teaching in with 3rd year medical students, and residents of the internal and family medicine program. In addition to internal medicine lectures, I am now participating in informal 1 hour lectures with the inpatient family medicine teams and am engaged in the voluntary rotation of medical student lectures in their internal medicine months.
As I finish my training and transition to the real world, I realized that great teachers defined my medical education. In an era of diminishing emphasis on education, we underestimate the importance of having great facilitators of education in medicine. Learning through good and effective teachers of medicine has maximized my potential to learn medicine, including the Dean of Students at SUNY Upstate, the late Dr E Gregory Keating, whom I credit for steering me toward neurology. I want to pass along my knowledge and enthusiasm for teaching to my other colleagues. I was fortunate enough to be able to say that I have "walk the walk" as I have won 2 Arnold P Gold Humanism in Teaching Awards as a medicine and neurology intern, and 3 interdepartmental teaching awards.
In this website, I have provided some word files with cogent teaching points, powerpoint presentations that will be useful for medical students, residents, and other health care professionals. Hopefully this blog will be highly informative and will help facilitate all of our understanding of the complex world of neurology and the awesome Chaddock's sign. Please feel free to leave comments.
