Course Description:

This 2-day course is intended for the chief resident, post-graduate fellow, or recent residency graduate embarking on their neurosurgical career. The course will address business, organization, and navigation strategies for early and enduring individual success. The format promotes interaction with faculty and peers through focused lectures, question and answer sessions, small group discussions, and a networking cocktail hour and dinner. The concepts and strategies that are provided will be applicable to those starting in community practice, academic practice, military practice, and those in other government neurosurgical positions.

Learning Objectives:

• Implement systematic processes to  establish effective physician-patient relationships that translate to an improvement in patient outcomes,  patient safety, and patient satisfaction while reducing medical errors and their legal implications.
• Describe indications (and the lack thereof) for surgery for various neurosurgical disorders commonly encountered in clinical practice.
• Identify techniques and methods to become more productive, an effective contributor in your new work environment/partnership/practice.
• Identify strategies to help establish a career focus in conjunction with your clinical work while maintaining balance with your health (mental and physical), other important responsibilities and passions.