The University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria has long boasted about its reputation as a leader in stroke treatment, but on Tuesday, it got recognition from a nationwide body.
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education announced Tuesday it would accredit a new fellowship program, which will specialize in stroke care and be administered by the Illinois Neurological Institutes Stroke Network at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center.
The announcement carries a certain amount of prestige as only 67 such fellowships exist nationwide.
This is the icing on the cake, said Dr. David Wang, one of the neurology professors who will oversee the fellowship. Both in teaching research and patient care, were being nationally recognized. Were excited and privileged.
The benefit of the new program is that it will attract talented young neurologists to Peoria to provide stroke treatment and research, Wang said. The fellowship will be offered to a physician who recently completed a residency in neurology or child neurology.
There are not enough neurologists in our field to tend to so many stroke patients, Wang said, citing that 800,000 adults are affected annually in the United States from stroke.
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