{"title":"Neurosurgery education: the pursuit of excellence.","authors":"Edward C Benzel","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The pursuit of excellence in education is a noble endeavor. Such has been the object of education and the goal of educators for eons. Neurosurgery education is no different from other domains in this regard. As with any discipline, this pursuit is complex and obligatorily multifaceted. It involves the use of what is often a broad and deep foundation of experience and knowledge. On this foundation, a modern and evolving infrastructure/suprastructure should be developed and nurtured. Once the infrastructure/suprastructure has taken form, a resident education plan can be derived. This plan, once enacted and executed, should be revisited, revised, and re-executed over and over again. One should never become satisfied with the status quo. A continued search for strategies and tools that achieve improvements over prior renditions of the education plan is mandatory if we hope to perpetually upgrade our process of education. Neurosurgical educators should seek criticism, admit mistakes, and modify educational behaviors accordingly. A strategy for achieving these goals regarding the pursuit of excellence in neurosurgical education is described in the pages that follow.</p>","PeriodicalId":10381,"journal":{"name":"Clinical neurosurgery","volume":"57 ","pages":"49-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29637829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pursuing excellence in healthcare delivery: American neurosurgery.","authors":"Fred G Barker","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The field of healthcare delivery is a large one, and neurosurgical health services research can be said to have only just begun. This chapter briefly addresses 3 components of excellence in health care delivery-quality, access, and cost-from a neurosurgical perspective.</p>","PeriodicalId":10381,"journal":{"name":"Clinical neurosurgery","volume":"57 ","pages":"60-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29637741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Excellence in clinical neurosurgery: practice and judgment make perfect.","authors":"James T Rutka","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10381,"journal":{"name":"Clinical neurosurgery","volume":"57 ","pages":"69-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29637742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Excellence in neurosurgical research: the neuro-oncology paradigm.","authors":"James T Rutka","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10381,"journal":{"name":"Clinical neurosurgery","volume":"57 ","pages":"38-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29637828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biochemical serum markers in head injury: an emphasis on clinical utility.","authors":"Samit Satish Mehta","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10381,"journal":{"name":"Clinical neurosurgery","volume":"57 ","pages":"134-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29637751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, 24-29 October, 2009, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10381,"journal":{"name":"Clinical neurosurgery","volume":"57 ","pages":"1-165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29751246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dimitris G Placantonakis, Mark J Tomishima, Fabien Lafaille, Sabrina C Desbordes, Fan Jia, Nicholas D Socci, Agnes Viale, Hyojin Lee, Neil Harrison, Lorenz Studer, Viviane S Tabar
{"title":"Enriched motor neuron populations derived from bacterial artificial chromosome-transgenic human embryonic stem cells.","authors":"Dimitris G Placantonakis, Mark J Tomishima, Fabien Lafaille, Sabrina C Desbordes, Fan Jia, Nicholas D Socci, Agnes Viale, Hyojin Lee, Neil Harrison, Lorenz Studer, Viviane S Tabar","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10381,"journal":{"name":"Clinical neurosurgery","volume":"56 ","pages":"125-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28764912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enlightened learning in a knowledge society. 2008 Congress Of Neurological Surgeons Presidential Address.","authors":"Anthony L Asher","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10381,"journal":{"name":"Clinical neurosurgery","volume":"56 ","pages":"2-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28764890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What is medical evidence?","authors":"Fred G Barker","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10381,"journal":{"name":"Clinical neurosurgery","volume":"56 ","pages":"24-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28764895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}