Course Description
These regional basic skills courses, each led by Residency Program Directors in the region, are designed to prepare PGY1 Residents for their first year of training. Each course includes cranial skills training as well as neurosurgical bedside procedures. Incoming PGY1 neurosurgical residents (essentially all incoming residents in ACGME accredited programs) will participate along with invited faculty members. Faculty members are invited by the site co-directors and selected based upon their subspecialty in neurosurgery.
These courses will assist incoming PGY1 neurosurgery residents to develop basic clinical skills, professionalism, and communication in an educationally designed, systematic and safe environment, in preparation for their first year of neurological residency.