Professor’s Rounds

The attending neurosurgeons, on a rotating basis, present case management problems to the neurosurgical residents, usually in an oral exam type format. An emphasis is made on the teaching points. At the faculty‘s discretion, the format of these rounds may be varied. The Program Director spends at least one session at the beginning of each academic year going over the program‘s goals and objectives with all of the residents, reviewing the CanMEDS competencies, and all of the UBC postgraduate policies relevant to their training. These sessions have also been used for discussions on topics of health advocacy such as law and policy relating to drinking and driving, mandatory use of helmets, and restraint devices, competency and consent, and withdrawal of care.