Medical Students
A number of learning opportunities are available for medical students at various levels of training. Please visit our Info for Medical Students page for more information.
Conferences
In addition to daily teaching rounds, led by individual members of the department faculty, the department holds a series of weekly resident conferences and review lectures to discuss specific neurosurgical concepts, techniques, problems, and solutions. Both faculty and residents are regular participants in these programs, many of which include formal didactic presentations. The training program includes the following faculty/resident conference:
Multidisciplinary Brain Tumor Board (weekly)
Chairman’s Conference (twice monthly)
Faculty Teaching Conference (weekly)
Image-Guided/Radiosurgery Conference (weekly)
Written Boards Preparation Conference Patient Care Conference (weekly)
Patient Care Conference (weekly)
Pediatric Neurosurgical Conference (twice weekly)
Pituitary Conference (quarterly)
Skull Base Conference (weekly)
Residents’ Conference (weekly)
Spine Conference (weekly)
Visiting Professor Series (fourto six per year)
Professional Courses
Department faculty offer advanced level training for professionals in several areas. Courses currently offered include:
Principles and Practice of Gamma Knife Surgery
Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Training for Nurses
Comprehensive Endoscopic Endonasal Surgery
Complex Endoscopic Endonasal Surgery
Endoscopic Intracranial Surgery Course
Principles and Practice of Intraoperative Neuromonitoring
Online CME
Department faculty currently lecture in a number of online CME courses for physicians and other medical professionals. The following courses are available through UPMC Physician Services or through the University of Pittsburgh:
Brain Stimulation: Overview
Controversies in Cranial Base Surgery
Endoscopic-Assisted Retromastoid Approach
Endoscopic Endonasal Approach: Crista Galli to the Dens (Sagittal Plane)
Endoscopic Endonasal Approach in the Pediatric Population
Endoscopic Endonasal Pituitary Surgery
Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Acoustic Neuromas: Treatment Options
Vertebral Body Compression Fractures: Interventional Management Strategies
Continuing Medical Education
Department faculty take an active role in national and regional continuing education programs. Course presentations are given every year at the annual meetings of both the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. In addition, physicians of several department centers provide institutional training to other physicians throughout the world. For more information, please contact us at 412-647-3685.
Other Postgraduate Education
The Department of Neurological Surgery participates in the education of house staff of other departments, including surgery, neurology, medicine (endocrinology) and emergency medicine. Educational endeavors include neuroscience conferences, general lectures on neurosurgical topics, and grand rounds. In addition, faculty takes part in the Department of Surgery’s Vascular Surgery Conference and provides speakers for the Critical Care Medicine Lecture Series.
Neurocirugía en UPMC
The Department of Neurological Surgery, through UPMC, maintains a Spanish-language website to serve, educate and provide important information for Spanish-speaking visitors.