Clinical Training

Throughout the five-year Neurosurgery Residency Program, residents participate in all aspects of patient care, taking on increasing levels of responsibility. Residents receive training in the full-range of modern neurosurgical techniques, including neurovascular, neuro-oncologic, epilepsy, movement disorder, pain, spinal surgery and instrumentation, peripheral nerve surgery and pediatric neurosurgery.

Between July 1, 2002 and June 30, 2003, more than 5,800 major neurosurgical procedures were performed by the neurosurgical program, including 1,251 craniotomies, 373 operations for head trauma, 132 transsphenoidal surgeries, 2,824 spinal surgeries, 354 peripheral nerve surgeries, 261 stereotactic surgeries and 80 pediatric reconstructive surgeries.

The extensive surgical and patient facilities of the program’s affiliated hospitals provide an excellent environment for training. Computerized monitoring and charting in the ICUs, 3-dimensional reconstruction of angiography, positron emission tomography, image-guided stereotactic surgery, endovascular surgery, stereotactic radiosurgery and neurophysiological monitoring are used in the care of neurosurgical patients.