Analysis of Neurosurgery Resident Operative Experience: Training Tomorrow's Neurosurgeon

Neurocritical Care Training for the Neurosurgery Resident

Introduction: Recent data has associated favorable outcomes in patients who were treated in a “semi-closed” intensive care unit and attended to by a devoted team of neurointensivists as opposed to the neurosurgeons. This has led many to question the need for dedicated critical care education in the neurosurgical residency training program. Our aim was to determine what current neurosurgery resi...

Operative Neurosurgery

Changing patterns of resident operative experience from 1990 to 1997.

HYPOTHESIS Resident operative experience has increased or decreased with respect to 12 specific operations. DESIGN A retrospective analysis of resident operative experience reported to the Accreditation Committee for Graduate Medical Education for academic years 1990-1997. SUBJECTS Residents completing an Accreditation Committee for Graduate Medical Education surgical program. MAIN OUTCOM...

Connectome analysis for pre-operative brain mapping in neurosurgery

OBJECT Brain mapping has entered a new era focusing on complex network connectivity. Central to this is the search for the connectome or the brains 'wiring diagram'. Graph theory analysis of the connectome allows understanding of the importance of regions to network function, and the consequences of their impairment or excision. Our goal was to apply connectome analysis in patients with brain t...

Simulation and resident education in spinal neurosurgery

BACKGROUND A host of factors have contributed to the increasing use of simulation in neurosurgical resident education. Although the number of simulation-related publications has increased exponentially over the past two decades, no studies have specifically examined the role of simulation in resident education in spinal neurosurgery. METHODS We performed a structured search of several databas...