The Department of Neurosurgery offers a residency program combining patient care, research and teaching, designed to provide well-rounded training in all aspects of clinical neurosurgery and to prepare the individual for a career as an outstanding surgeon and investigator. Residents receive clinical training at both The Mount Sinai Hospital and Elmhurst Hospital Center; the diversity of case materials provides them a broad background. Responsibilities are developed in a graded fashion in respect to patient management and operating room experience. A year of full-time research experience is part of the program as well as rotations through neurology, neuropatholgy, pediatric neurosurgery, endovascular neurosurgery, neuroradiology, and radiosurgery.
The Department has a multidisciplinary faculty that includes 25 neurosurgeons, 10 full-time at Mount Sinai, two full-time at Elmhurst, 13 voluntary, two neuroradiologists, a neurointerventional radiologist, two neuro-intensivists, a neuroanesthesiologist, a neuro-oncologist and six basic scientists. The physicians are leaders in their field, pioneering advances in frameless stereotactic cranial surgery, computer-assisted image guided minimally invasive neurosurgery, spinal disease, management of neurovascular abnormalities and tumors of the nervous system. Because of the diversity of talents and subspecialization of the neurosurgeons, the residents are exposed to a broad range of neurosurgical problems. Outside of the operating room and clinics, there is a well-developed educational environment with teaching rounds, weekly conferences, journal club, and investigative laboratories. During the research year, the resident is exposed to basic research methods in one of several well-established laboratories within the Department. Collaborations with outside departments are encouraged. Throughout their training, residents participate in clinical and basic science research projects that lead to publications and presentations at national and local meetings. Residents also assist in teaching medical students.
The strong clinical experiences, cutting-edge technical capabilities and breadth of research opportunities at Mount Sinai School of Medicine are the tools that assure our residents success in their future as neurosurgeons.
