Division of Neurosurgery
The neurosurgical faculty consists of a division chief and seven clinical faculty members. The faculty represent diversified backgrounds and interests. Approximately 1200 major neurosurgical operations are performed at the University of Tennessee Medical Center each year. Since there are no neurosurgical residents on the service, the surgery resident has firsthand exposure to a large number and variety of neurosurgical problems, both cranial and spinal, from a mix of trauma and non-trauma patients.
Junior surgery residents
may rotate on the neurosurgical service and experience a one-on-one
relationship with individual neurosurgical faculty members. This
permits individual case discussions as well as opportunity to see,
as first assistant, the varieties of surgical procedures and techniques.
As the surgical house officer progresses through the residency program,
close association with the neurosurgical faculty is continuous,
especially in the management of patients with central nervous system
injuries.
Neurosurgical faculty
members present monthly lectures to surgical residents covering
the broad spectrum of neurosurgical topics. Faculty also actively
participate in morbidity and mortality conference and other resident
teaching activities. Surgical residents are afforded the opportunity
to participate in neurosurgical research.
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