Postgraduate Medical Education

The Integrated Epilepsy Unit at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center is a Level 4 epilepsy center offering advanced solutions for both pediatric and adult epilepsy patients in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and abroad.

We are a tertiary referral center and presently have a 5 bedded Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU), which we will be shortly expanding to 16 beds. We offer a variety of advanced diagnostics including

• Stereo-electroencephalography (SEEG)
• Subdural grids
• Intraoperative monitoring
• Continuous-EEG monitoring
• MRI (including PRISMA), FDG-PET, SISCOM-SPECT, fMRI and Wada testing.

The fellowship provided is a 2-year program where the fellow will rotate through the various sub-specialties within epilepsy on a monthly basis.

Clinical duties include the attendance of outpatient clinics, which are attended two-three times per week with consultant supervision. Monthly rotations include:

1. Outpatient EEG reporting: routine and continuous EEG (CEEG)
2. EMU rotation where there is consultant supervision and rigorous training in Video EEG analysis, Stereo-EEG methodology (the anatamo-electro-clinical correlation) and subdural interpretation in both pediatrics and adults. Fellows will be facing a wide range of cases from focal to generalized epilepsies, pre-surgical and surgical work up, functional neurological disorders, autoimmune epilepsies and complex genetic and metabolic epilepsies. Fellows will be expected to generate reports on the patients that they have monitored and present these cases with a view to surgical work up if appropriate.
3. Choice of intra-operative monitoring or sleep medicine rotations. Further offers of rotations are presently being planned.

There will be weekly teaching sessions from KFSH&RC epilepsy staff and guests covering a range of topics. Additional teaching sessions are provided in the form of weekly grand rounds.

There is a strong push towards clinical research supported by our robust links with the department of medical genetics and radiology. We expect of a minimum of two original research publications during the fellowship duration.

A successful candidate applying for the program should demonstrate an enthusiasm for helping patients with epilepsy and a desire to contribute positively to the field of epilepsy including research and teaching.

We strongly support empowering local healthcare services within the Kingdom and increasing the knowledge base.