Course Description

These regional basic skills courses, each led by Residency Program Directors in the region, are designed to prepare PGY-1 Residents for their first year of training. Each course includes cranial skills training as well as neurosurgical bedside procedures. Incoming PGY-1 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 PGY-1 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.