Welcome to Clinical Neurophysiology

Dr Adrian J Fowle, FRCP BSc


Consultant, West Surrey Clinical Neurophysiology (St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, Surrey and Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey)
Honorary Consultant, Dept of Neurology, Atkinson Morley's Regional Neuroscience Centre, St George's Hospital, London

Need an explanation? See the Quick Introduction to clinical neurophysiology

This web site describes a personal view of clinical neurophysiology from a British perspective. Please read the Site Guide for an explanation of the site's philosophy. The site is evolving - please review the What's New section from time to time for an update. I welcome feedback, suggestions and contributions through the Contact page.

For an "official" site please see the excellent site of the British Society for Clinical Neurophysiology (BSCN). This was re-launched in its third implementation in Autumn 2008.

Finally, this site can be reached from several addresses (variants of the name). You will get the best response from clinicalneurophysiology.org.uk - that's without a hyphen and in the .org not .co subdomain.

BSCN meeting Portsmouth 12-13th July

Unusually for the BSCN, this meeting requires pre-registration.

Please see the website which our host, Chris Moore, has set up for this purpose: www.bscn-course.info.

New Consultant Clinical Neurophysiology Post In Dublin

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Adrian has very kindly agreed to let me alert you all of a new and exciting joint Consultant Clinical Neurophysiology post at  Beaumont Hospital and Mater Hospitals In Dublin. 

The successful candidate will be expected to develop an intraoperative monitoring service at both hospitals as well as provide service to the expanding epilepsy monitoring unit at Beaumont Hospital. 

Robin G Willison 1925 - 2012

Dr Robin Gow Willison, formerly Senior Lecturer in Neurology and head of the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology at the National Hospital, Queen Square, died on 18th February 2012.

Email glitch 12th Nov 2011

Apologies to anyone who received duplicate copies of the STP and PTP curriculum messages today. A software "improvement" happened which I had to reverse.

Festschrift for Professor Roberto Guiloff

You are warmly invited to a Festschrift to mark the retirement of Professor Roberto Guiloff on Friday 17th June 2011. There is no charge for the academic day but lunch will be provided to those who confirm attendance. Details and costs of the evening reception will be sent on request.

Managing Scientific Careers

Managing Scientific Careers is a DoH programme led by the Chief Scientific Officer of the DoH to overhaul the career structure of all the scientists in the NHS. The link above provides a jumping off point for much information.

An NHS Network has been set up which will host all published MSC curricula . This Network is an open network that anyone can view, no membership or passwords needed.

Currently the 5 PTP curricula are available and PTP Training Manuals and STPs will follow shortly.

Clinical Neurophysiology Essay Competition for Medical Students and Junior Doctors to ST2

    Do you think and essay competition aimed at medical students and junior doctors, up to CMT2, would help promote some interest in the specialty of clinical neurophysiology?

    Recruitment to the specialty has been less than wonderful recently. A common comment from clinical neurophysiologists is that many medics and core medical trainees have simply never heard of the speciality - even those with an interest in physiology and neurosciences generally. 

Synergy Users Group

Dear Colleagues

I have at various times tried to persuade the several commercial owners of the Synergy EMG / EP / IOM machine to set up a discussion forum so that we can share problems. This has not happened.

Coming back on the train from Bristol last week, Arup seemed interested in this idea - so I have hosted it as a start. I am willing to let any doctor or CNP in , as well as employees of Carefusion. It will be a private forum to start with, so other manufacturers cannot "spy" on it. 

Association of Trainees in Clinical Neurophysiology

Membership of the ATCN is open to all UK Clinical Neurophysiology Trainees and is free.

Because of the small number of Clinical Neurophysiology trainees there are no regional Calman days. As such we meet at three national training days each year that always occur the day before the British Society For Clinical Neurophysiology (BSCN) scientific meeting.

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