While research is certainly not a required element of pediatric neurology residency training (several of our graduates elect to enter private practice), there are extensive research opportunities both within the division and throughout the medical school and university for those who desire. Our faculty members are engaged in many different areas of research from imaging to clinical trials to traditional bench research to educational studies.
http://neuro.wustl.edu/research/researchlabs

Washington University prides itself on interdisciplinary collaborations. We have strong research relationships with areas such as radiology, psychology, hematology/oncology, molecular and cell biology, and neuroscience. Within the university are several research institutes with which the department has an extremely close association, including the McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience (website is under construction right now) and the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders (http://hopecenter.wustl.edu). During the final year of pediatric neurology training, residents have up to nine months of elective time that they can dedicate to research if they so choose.

Although we typically recommend two years of pediatric residency training prior to starting pediatric neurology, highly qualified individuals can be considered for the neuroscience track. In this track the resident completes one year of pediatrics residency followed by the adult neurology year and then the clinical pediatric neurology year. The elective time of the following year is then combined with the year of neuroscience research to allow maximal protected research time.