Curriculum
The Curriculum
Includes the majority of the Neurosurgical procedures currently being performed. They will be organized by anatomical areas and in a sequence that preserves anatomical structures for the next procedure.
Duplication of techniques to be presented at Boot Camp will be avoided. The format of the educational experience will be a live/video presentation of the operation to be performed alternating with a period of time for you and your table mates to perform that procedure.
It is planned that 3-4 such sequences will occur each day. The period of dissection will be approx 2 hours in length with each member of the group of 4 table mates serving as surgeon first assistant, scrub nurse and rotating observer for 30 minutes at a time.
A check list of expected educational objectives from each exercise will be available for self assessment. We expect 100's of anatomical details and relationships to be highlighted by this process.
Mentors, lecturers and representatives of supply companies will be available to assist you in proper performance of the respective procedures.
A step wise dissection guide keyed to texts of Neurosurgical procedures will be provided. Individual breakout sessions to instruct best use principles regarding the drill, microscope, ultrasound, navigation etc is planned.
Mentor
We call for experienced Neurosurgical colleagues to volunteer to serve as mentors. You will be asked to advise two tables of dissectors, (8) students and help them perform procedures and identify anatomical structures. Even more senior advisors will be available to back you up as needed. You will receive lunch each day and a plaque of appreciation.
This international course is dedicated to the Memory of
Dr. Edir B. Sigueira
a teacher mentor and inspiring example to generations of Neurosurgeons whom he taught in Chicago, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia and Miami.
and in honor of Dr. Thomas Origitano,
Chairman of Neurosurgery at Loyola University.
whose innovative concept of training young residents in basic Neurosurgical techniques was the stimulus for this course.