Headache Medicine Fellowship

Overview

MUSC offers a 1-year, UCNS-accredited Headache Medicine Fellowship with a strong clinical focus on the outpatient evaluation and management of patients with headache and facial pain. This will include training in procedural interventions such as botulinum toxin injections, pericranial nerve blocks, trigger point injections, and sphenopalatine ganglion blocks.

The fellowship balances clinical exposure between faculty-led clinics and the fellow’s own longitudinal clinic, where they will manage a personal panel of patients. The fellow’s own clinic will consist of five half-day sessions each week under direct faculty supervision. New patients are allotted 60-minute appointments, while follow-up visits are scheduled for 30 minutes. Additional clinical experience includes dedicated pediatric headache medicine training and elective rotations in neuro-otology, neuro-ophthalmology, and pain medicine.

A robust didactic curriculum complements clinical training, featuring weekly lectures plus case discussions and a monthly journal club with faculty and advanced practice providers. Fellows will have the opportunity to undertake a clinical research project, in addition to completing a required quality improvement project tailored to their interests.

By the end of the fellowship, graduates will be fully prepared to practice independently as a subspecialty headache medicine physician and to successfully pass the UCNS board certification examination.

Application requirements

Completion of an ACGME accredited residency in neurology, family medicine, internal medicine, physical medicine & rehabilitation, or psychiatry
Eligibility to qualify for licensure by the South Carolina Board of Medical Examiners and must be board eligible

How to apply

Complete the MUSC headache medicine fellowship application via REDCap
Submit the following via REDCap
- Curriculum vitae
- Personal statement
- Three letters of recommendation
- USMLE or COMPLEX score reports

MUSC headache medicine fellowship will be participating in the NRMP match. Applicants should register for the headache medicine match with NRMP.