When TDP’s Founding Director and author of The Dysautonomia Project book, Kelly Freeman, approached the AAS Education Committee Chair, Dr. Glen Cook, about how to best educate the medical community in autonomic medicine, he recommended employing the Penry Residents Epilepsy Program model to create a mini fellowship in autonomic medicine for residents. Launched in 1986, the Penry Residents Epilepsy Program has provided epilepsy training to approximately 25% of U.S. neurologists practicing today.  

This was the conception of The Residents Course. The goal of the Residents Course is to increase the number of primary care and specialty physicians who diagnose and treat disorders of the autonomic nervous system. Thirty-six medical residents will come to Florida each year to learn from some of the top board-certified autonomic specialists in the world. Those residents will return to their residency programs to educate their peers. This will exponentially increase the number of doctors who can identify autonomic disorders.