Neurosurgery Residency Program

Resident Conference Schedules

Conferences - On-service Residents

• Wednesday
  6:45am             Mock Oral Boards
  7:30am             M&M
• Thursday        
  7:00am             Grand Rounds
  8:00am             Radiology Conferences          
  9:00am             Chief’s Conference (once/month)
  12:30pm           Program Director’s Conference
  1:00pm             Surgical Anatomy Conference
  2-4pm               Curriculum Conference

Conferences - Research Residents

• Surgical Anatomy and Skull Base Lab
  • 9am-12pm; two Thursdays/month
  • Review of all Rhoton anatomy papers
• Direct dissection on cadaver heads
  • All aspects of anatomy and surgical approaches covered over two years
  • Research residents continue to think “surgically”

BWH/Children's Radiology Conference

• Maintain case-based format
• In addition, presentation every session from a neuroradiology fellow
  • 10-20 minutes at the beginning
  • Review of specific aspect of neuroimaging
• Review of various MRI imaging sequences (what each is designed to detect)
• Review of best test to detect specific lesions (abscess, Glioma, Etc...)
• Discuss complications of imaging (contrast, dose, etc)
• Show “teaching cases” of images we don’t see often (neurodegeneration, encephalopathy, etc)

Curriculum Conference - CNS Guidelines

• 48 sessions per year
• Over 2 year cycle, comprehensive review of all relevant topics in NS as defined by the CNS education committee
• Resident preparation with attending proctoring of each topic
• The topics will be pre-defined to complete review over 2-year cycle; series of questions set by CNS committee
• Each talk will be saved on our intranet website
• Each resident will have 2+ cycles of review by graduation
• One intern and one pathology session per month
  • One hour basics review by the intern
  • One-hour slide-review (with neuropathologist)
• 3 two-hour sessions per month
  • Tumor, Spine/PN, Cerebrovascular, Pediatrics
    • 15 sessions each
  • Trauma and Functional/Pain
    • 6 sessions each
• Use of SANS to assess progress

ICU/Critical Care Conferences

• ICU core lecture/training
  • During 6 month PGY1 ICU rotation