AANS Neurosurgeon
Across history, there are those touchstone moments that unite a generation. These are the events when all individuals – regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, religion or other defining features – can easily say, “I can tell you exactly what I was doing when …” Such disruptions include the bombing of Pearl Harbor, assassination of President John F. Kennedy and...
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has created a worldwide public health and economic crisis. Facing challenges from a critically overextended health care system, academic neurosurgery departments continue to treat emergent and urgent neurosurgical conditions, while ensuring the safety of departmental staff, and minimizing viral transmission throughout the hospital and community.
To this end, during the initial COVID-19 case surge, and again...
It is important to improve the efficiency of resident education and surgical feedback in an impactful way. As health care delivery changes and hospitals put more emphasis on generating revenue, physicians’ time becomes increasingly constrained. There is increased financial pressure for departments to do more and individual surgeons to get more cases done in a day. This time pressure...
In the current COVID-19 pandemic environment, neurosurgery program directors (PDs) and prospective residency applicants will face novel challenges in the upcoming 2020-2021 match cycle. Sub-internships have historically provided an opportunity for students and programs to familiarize with one another and assess a potential cultural fit. Given the public health crisis, the Society for Neurological Surgeons (SNS) provided recommendations for...
Lifelong learning applies to all people across all millennia around the globe. From the beginning, we seek to know our world by processing the information that comes to us through our five senses. This process continues throughout childhood well into adulthood, with contributions from schooling, family and work relationships, our experiences and our innate desire to learn. As the...
Within six days of the World Health Organization's declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) recommended that medical students be dismissed from their clinical duties involving patient contact for a minimum of two weeks. Due to required physical distancing and the absence of stimulation from clinical...
As neurosurgical attendings with academic responsibilities, we have obligations and mandates from the American Board of Neurological Surgeons (ABNS) and the Society of Neurological Surgeons (SNS) to provide adequate and informed socioeconomic and medicolegal education to our neurosurgical residents. Exactly what this education should entail has long been debated among the leadership and boards of the national organizations. The...
Neurosurgery is a field that has dramatically evolved for the better over the last few decades. This progressive evolution has been exciting, but progressive change comes with an obligation to keep abreast with the latest scientific findings and emerging technologies. Although there is an abundance of meetings and opportunities for CME in neurosurgery. Since 1931, the AANS annual meeting...
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Neurosurgery graduate medical education (GME) is constantly evolving. The institution of the milestones was a significant step towards competency-based education. As faculty, we are now required by the Accreditation Council...
In an effort to support neurosurgery with premier education during the pandemic, the AANS launched its first virtual coding course, AANS Managing Coding & Reimbursement Challenges in Neurosurgery. With constructive content, AANS faculty and staff expeditiously transitioned the in-person, densely packed course into two half-day virtual sessions.
Witnessing a substantial boost in user engagement, Course Director John Ratliff, MD, FAANS, commented, “The...
