El PGY de 1 año está diseñado para desarrollar competencia en la evaluación y el manejo de pacientes adultos y pediátricos con problemas neuroquirúrgicos. Si bien el desarrollo de habilidades quirúrgicas y técnicas básicas es un componente importante de la pasantía, el enfoque principal es desarrollar la base de conocimientos necesaria para facilitar una excelente atención al paciente. Todas las rotaciones para este año son en el Hospital Universitario.

Los residentes de PGY 1 rotan a través de un conjunto diverso de asignaciones diseñadas para proporcionar los fundamentos de la atención al paciente en el campo de la cirugía neurológica.

PGY-1 Schedule

El año PGY 2 se divide entre el Hospital Universitario,  Centro Médico de la Administración de Veteranos (VAMC) y el Hospital de Niños Carrie Tingley (CTH). Este año marca el comienzo formal de la capacitación ortopédica y el énfasis está en el desarrollo de habilidades ortopédicas básicas que incluyen historia y examen físico, manejo de fracturas y principios quirúrgicos básicos. Los fundamentos de la teoría ortopédica se enseñan con énfasis en la ciencia básica mientras se rotan en el servicio de extremidades superiores.

Las rotaciones PGY 2 están diseñadas para proporcionar una introducción a los problemas ortopédicos generales para adultos y niños.

PGY-2 Schedule

The fourth year of training is our fully protected research year, or an enfolded fellowship experience in functional neurosurgery, the first year diagnostic endovascular fellowship, or a Neurocritical care fellowship (NCC). Advanced degrees may be pursued during the research year also and this year can be spent pursuing that degree outside of New Mexico, if necessary to fulfill the individual resident’s goals.

PGY-4 Schedule

Our 5th year residents spend their year focusing on spine surgery and general neurosurgery at our community site - Lovelace Medical Center, just five minutes away from our main campus. They will operate daily and work closely with faculty at Lovelace as the repetitive surgical cases prepares them to handle the diagnostic and technical demands of their chief year.

PGY-5 Schedule

During the “transition to practice” year, the chief resident is expected to assume the responsibility of running their own service, and evaluating patients pre-operatively, perioperatively, and post-operatively, including leading the surgical cases as primary surgeon. They will also teach junior residents and medical students as they lead daily rounds.  Most chief residents will have logged well over 500 surgical cases during this year and will be prepared to manage primary call as a neurosurgery attending, and run their own clinic,  by the end of this formative year. They will work closely with the chair, Dr. Schmidt, in a unique mentorship model for many of their cases and with their major decisions.

PGY-6 Schedule

 The Post-Residency Fellowship allows the resident to focus on subspecialty level training experience in one of our fellowship options, or an external fellowship experience. At the completion of this final year, they will begin their careers with a phenomenal clinical and research training behind them.

PGY-7 Schedule