Clinical Training

The residency training program in Neurological Surgery at Northwestern offers multiple educational and didactic opportunities. Clinical and surgical training are abundant throughout the residency while the resources of the Northwestern University provide a rich environment for physicians, scientists, engineers and others to exchange ideas about patient care and develop the latest and most innovative therapies.

Regular resident didactics sessions cover high-yield topics to broaden our residents' education and prepare them for the written and oral boards.  Whenever possible, clinical case vignettes are used in combination with basic science to enhance and deepen the understanding of a given subject. Monthly skull base and spine cadaver labs provide hands-on supplementation of the operative experience,while weekly specialty working conferences expose residents to complex decision-making processes. Finally, weekly departmental Grand Rounds provide cutting-edge updates in neurosurgical topics by world-renowned guest faculty as well as our own Northwestern faculty and residents.

Some of our featured surgical cases are below: