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TRAININGIntroductionThe department of Neurosurgery at Frenchay hospital has a strong reputation for clinical training of registrars. A high throughput of patients with a broad spectrum of neurosurgical disorders allows trainees to acquire valuable clinical and surgical skills. The training programme is further supported by departmental and neurosciences academic meetings, and teaching sessions. The registrar training pogramme and trainee rotation is integrated with the Department of Neurosurgery at Derriford hospital, Plymouth. Joint regional postgraduate study days with Plymouth are organised on a quarterly basis. Academic Meetings
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MonthlyThe department holds a series of monthly postgraduate study days. Every four months, this meeting is held in Taunton, jointly with the Neurosurgical Units in Plymouth and Southampton.
CLINICAL TRAININGThe training programme consists of a 6 year Specialist Registrar (SpR) training period as follows:Year 1In the first year, there is strong emphasis on basic operative technique and clinical decision making. Junior SpRs are assigned to an operating list 2 to 3 days a week, and most trainees participate in more than 150 cases during their first year. The bulk of the cases are trauma craniotomies, routine spinal procedures, and shunt surgery. Registrars attend the outpatient clinic approximately once a week. Years 2 & 3Increasingly difficult procedures are assigned to more senior trainees and consist mainly of complex spinal procedures with instrumentation, craniotomy for intra-axial tumors and meningiomas, and posterior fossa surgery. Years 4 - 6Senior trainees are exposed to major cases including, skull base procedures, complex spine surgery with instrumentation, and posterior fossa procedures. Their responsibilities also include overseeing the clinical service, supporting junior trainees and teaching Senior House Officers and medical students. At the completion of their training programme, trainees would have usually performed in excess of 600 cases personally. In the final two years, the emphasis is towards consolidating on more complex neurosurgical procedures and succeeding in the Intercollegiate Board Examination in Neurological Surgery (FRCS,SN). Developing managerial and organisational skills are also an important part of training at this stage. After the completion of training, registrars are encouraged to embark upon a 12 month training fellowship at other institutions to further develop their chosen sub-specialist interest before commencing their neurosurgical careers. Other Postgraduate EducationThe Department of Neurological Surgery participates in the education of senior house officers in the departments of neurosurgery and neurology. The educational programme includes weekly lectures on neurosurgical and neuroscience topics, teaching of basic skills in the operating theatre and ward rounds. RESEARCHTrainees are encouraged to participate in research throughout their training. They commonly have five to eight publications in referenced journals and several presentations at national and international meetings by the completion of their training. A full-time research fellowship is usually undertaken during the training period. Trainees generally embark upon a 12 to 24 month period of full-time research conducting clinical or basic science research on specific projects which lead to a higher postgraduate degree in neurosciences. Trainees are supervised either by a member of the neurosurgery department faculty or another neuroscience department where collaborative projects are ongoing. During this research period, trainees are expected to attend clinical teaching sessions where possible. After completing their research training, trainees return to the clinical service. RESEARCH FELLOWSMr Puneet Plaha FRCS: Functional Fellowship (2003- 2004): Stereotactic Functional Neurosurgery for Parkinson's disease
Mr Nik Patel FRCS: Functional Fellowship (2000- 2002): Stereotactic Functional Neurosurgery for Parkinson's disease
Mr Crispin Wigfield FRCS: Medtronic Sofamor Danek Fellowship (1998-2000): Cervical Spine Surgery Mr Paul Grundy FRCS: Royal College of Surgeon Fellowship (1998-2000): Neurotrophic and Glucocorticoid Responses to Traumatic Brain Injury Miss Stana Bojanic FRCS: Royal College of Surgeon Fellowship (1997- 1999):Oculomotor microtremor in neurological disorders Mr Philip Coburn FRCS: Royal College of Surgeon Fellowship (1998-1999): Functional Pallidotomy in Parkinson's disease Mr Nitin Patel FRCS(SN): British Brain & Spine Foundation Fellowship (1995-1997): The Neurotrophic and TrK Receptor responses to Traumatic Brain Injury Mr Tim Germon FRCS(SN): Research Felowship(1993-1995): Near-infrared Spectroscopy & Cerebral Blood Flow
CURRENT TRAINEESKatie Gilkes FRCS, UK Dev Ramnarine FRCS, Trinidad Shahid Siddique FRCS, UK Mark Nowell FRCS, UK Anna Visca, Italy Jacqueline Reaper FRCS, UK Puneet Plaha FRCS, UK Sadaquate Khan FRCS, UK Najib Ramzi FRCS
PREVIOUS TRAINEES / FELLOWS (1995-2000)Nick Park FRCS, Skull Base Fellow, Liverpool, UK Sudish Karunakaran MRCS, Consultant, Kerala, India Nick Haden FRCS, Consultant, Plymouth, UK Matthew Garnett FRCS, Consultant, Cambridge,UK Crispin Wigfield FRCS, Consultant, Liverpool, UK Paul Grundy FRCS, Consultant, Southampton, UK Nik Patel FRCS,Consultant, Bristol, UK Madison Michael II FACS,Consultant, Memphis,USA Stana Bojanic FRCS,Consultant, Oxford,UK Richard Edwards FRCS,Consultant, Bristol,UK Emad Shenouda FRCS,Consultant, Southampton,UK Torstein Meling FRCS,Consultant, Norway Zuhair Taha FRCS,Consutlant, Oman Essam El Gamal FRCS,Consultant, Egypt Rafay Zafar FRCS(SN), Consultant,Pakistan Ellison Stevenson FRACS, Consultant, Brisbane, Australia Richard Kahler FRACS, Consultant, Brisbane, Australia Simon McKechnie FRACS, Consultant, Sydney, Australia Ravi Krishnapillai FRCS(SN), Consultant, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Don Atkins FACS, Consultant, Memphis, USA Nick Theodore FACS,Consultant, USA Sylvia Gatscher FRCS, Consultant, UK Sherif El Watidy FRCS(SN), Consultant, Saudi Arabia George Malcolm FRCS(SN), Consultant, Bristol, UK Andrew Law FRACS, Consultant, Auckland, New Zealand Devsur BasavaKumar FRCS, Bangalore, India Nick Finnis FRACS, Consultant, Auckland, New Zealand Nitin Patel FRCS(SN), Consultant, Bristol, UK Tim Germon FRCS(SN), Consultant, Plymouth, UK David McDowell FRACS, Consultant, Sydney, Australia Steven Halcrow FRACS, Consultant, Adelaide, Australia Aziz Moufid, Consultant, France Ian Pople FRCS(SN), Consultant, Bristol, UK Thomas Cadoux-Hudson FRCS(SN), Consultant, Oxford, UK Waleed Murshid FRCS(SN), Consultant, Saudi Arabia Martin McGee-Collett FRACS, Consultant, Sydney, Australia |
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