A one-day visit of the EEG and EMG/NCV departments during neurology course for medical students of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences

Today, an important part of the patients’ diagnostic activities includes paraclinical tests and procedures, which follow their completed history-taking and clinical examinations, in such a way that many medical science sources in different fields consider them to be follow-up activities of clinical examinations. This is also the case in the field of neurology and many of its specialized subfields. For example, in a patient suspected of seizure and epilepsy, an EEG not only helps to identify the real patient’s problem or disease, but also to diagnose the type of the disease and contributes to decision-making on the type of the drug to use. The EMG/NCV is also necessary for patients with a possible peripheral neuropathic involvement. In most cases, paraclinical activities are performed outside the educational settings, such as in laboratories or special procedure rooms, and students, residents and learners are only informed about the results of those activities without observing how they are actually performed, so they will not learn that diagnostic method and will not gain a deep understanding of it, to the point that they may be unfamiliar with the necessity of doing that even during their practice.