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Goals and Objectives PGY6

Upon completion of the PGY6 year, NS residents will be expected to meet the following educational goals and objectives:

Patient Care

  • Ability to construct a plan of management for the most complex clinical problems in neurosurgery
  • Ability to diagnose brain death and advise next of kin of its significance in a caring compassionate manner
  • Ability to function as a consultant in both an inpatient and outpatient setting
  • Ability to provide supportive and compassionate care to patients and their families

Demonstrate surgical proficiency in: 

  • Surgical planning
  • Patient positioning
  • Knowledge of specific procedure
  • Speed and efficiency
  • Knowledge and use of instruments
  • Flow of operation
  • Intraoperative judgment
  • Use of assistants
  • Respect for tissue

Surgical Specifics

  • Demonstrate ability to stop complex bleeding
  • Demonstrate the ability to satisfactorily perform all operative procedures
  • Demonstrate ability to dissect and clip anterior circulations intracranial aneurysms
  • Demonstrate ability to perform complex spinal instrumentation
  • Demonstrate ability to remove polar arteriovenous malformations

Medical Knowledge

  • Demonstrate detailed knowledge of normal and abnormal anatomy and physiology of the nervous system
  • Demonstrate detailed knowledge of neurosurgical disease processes
  • Demonstrate ability to teach effectively
  • Demonstrate ability to instruct residents in neurosurgical patient evaluation, plan implementation and critical care
  • Demonstrate ability to manage and lead the patient care conference
  • Demonstrate ability to assist program director in overseeing personal, academic and clinical growth and development of junior residents
  • Participate actively and lead conferences

Practice-based Learning and Improvement

  • Provide instruction about neurosurgical problems to more junior residents and clinical clerks
  • Instruct junior residents in neurosurgical operative techniques
  • Manage and administrate the quality improvement conference for the neurosurgical service
  • Develop skills as program builder and an administrator of the neurosurgical service

Interpersonal and Communication Skills

  • Communicate with patients and their families explaining disease processes and treatment options, including benefits and risks, and possible complications in comprehensible terms
  • Discuss patient problems in an organized and articulate manner
  • Work in cooperative attitude and sensitive manner with other health care personnel
  • Give and receive advice in an objective, mature manner

Professionalism

  • Demonstrate knowledge of the ethical and legal aspects of neurosurgery
  • Be honest, reliable, and respectful in working with patients and colleagues
  • Demonstrate sensitivity to the sexual, ethnic, cultural and religious characteristics of patients and family
  • Respect each patient's right to privacy

Systems-based Practice

  • Direct a team of healthcare professionals managing patients with complex neurosurgical problems
  • Understand legal issues in neurosurgery
  • Understand medical economics, politics, practice types
  • Practice cost effective medicine
  • Incorporate evidence based approaches