Neurosurgery - Level I

Course overview

The 1.5 day Movora Neurosurgery - Level I course is designed for residents and/or boarded surgeons that are skilled at surgery and wish to expand their surgical repertoire to neurosurgery. The skills taught will be thoracolumbar hemi-laminectomy, dorsal laminectomy for lumbosacral decompression, and ventral slot decompression. This one-and-a-half-day course will consist of a combination of lecture & lab sessions beginning with theory and a detailed step-by-step description of the procedures. Demonstration of the procedure by an instructor on a cadaver will also be provided. The course has been designed to provide optimum time in wet-lab so learners can gain surgical confidence, and will be encouraged to repeat the procedures as needed during each lab session. Instrumentation will include standard surgical instrumentation, specialized spinal instrumentation, high speed burr, and drills.