Opportunity to assess patients in the Emergency Department. Patient care responsibility according to level of experience. All periods throughout the year. To clearly recognize situations characteristic of neurosurgical emergencies, and the response to them. To understand the usual presentation, indicated diagnostic procedures, methods of treatment, and usual outcome of common neurosurgical conditions.
Daily ward rounds with residents and staffmen.
Attendance in the Operating Room for periods of observation and in selected cases, to assist at operations. The Academic Day includes rounds in neurosurgery, neurology, neuroradiology and neuropathology and lectures in specified basic neuroscience subjects. The student is expected to be on call 1 in 4.