Confusion in the Ranks: Variability in Spine Training Amongst Orthopedic and Neurosurgery Residents

ORTHOPEDIC RESIDENTS TRAINED DIFFERENTLY THAN NEURO RESIDENTS IN SPINE? WHAT?  (Orthopedics This Week)
Confusion in the Ranks: Variability in Spine Training Amongst Orthopedic and Neurosurgery Residents
Alan Daniels, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon at Brown University, isn’t comfortable with the variability that currently exists in residency training for spine surgeons. He tells OTW, “As opposed to, say, otolaryngologists or urologists, who have only one training pathway, spine surgery specialists have two. There are both orthopedic surgery residency and the neurosurgical residency pathways, each ...