Edward Burkhardt, Nimer Adeeb, Danielle Terrell, Carlie Proctor, Basel Musmar, Christoph J Griessenauer, Jennifer A Kosty, Bharat Guthikonda
OBJECTIVE: Neurological surgery residency remains one of the most competitive and longest specialties in terms of training in medicine. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education uses residents' case volume throughout residency as one of its measures for the quality of surgical training. The objective was to study the variability of residency case volume among US training programs and to analyze the factors that potentially influence that case volume. METHODS: In line with the Checklist for Reporting Results of Internet E-Surveys (CHERRIES) guidelines, an online survey regarding department size, case volume, number of residents per year, number of dedicated research years, presence of fellows, and resident case volume by the time of graduation was created using Google Forms and distributed to all neurosurgery residency program directors and coordinators in the US...
August 4, 2023: Journal of Neurosurgery