Neurological Surgery Milestones
Author Notes
Nathan R. Selden, MD, PhD, is Campagna Chair of Pediatric Neurosurgery, and Director, OHSU Neurological Surgery Residency Program, Oregon Health & Science University; Aviva Abosch, MD, PhD, is Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, and Director, Stereotactic, Functional, and Epilepsy Surgery, University of Minnesota Medical School; Richard W. Byrne, MD, is Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Rush University Medical School; Robert E. Harbaugh, MD, FAANS, FACS, FAHA, is Director, Institute of Neurosciences, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, and Professor, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, The Pennsylvania State University; William E. Krauss, MD, is Professor of Neurological Surgery, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine; Timothy B. Mapstone, MD, is Wilkins Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurological Surgery, The University of Oklahoma; Oren Sagher, MD, is Professor and Vice-chair, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan; Gregory J. Zipfel, MD, is Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery and Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine; Pamela L. Derstine, PhD, MHPE, is Executive Director, RC(s) for Colon and Rectal Surgery, Neurological Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, and Otolaryngology, ACGME; and Laura Edgar, EdD, CAE, is Senior Associate Director, Outcome Assessment, ACGME.
The authors, most of whom participated in milestone development as members of the Neurological Surgery Milestone Working Group, wish to thank the members of the Neurological Surgery Milestone Advisory Group and of the original Neurological Surgery Working Group for their contributions to this work: Cargill H. Alleyne Jr, MD; Nicholas Barbaro, MD; Daniel Barrow, MD; Hunt Batjer, MD; Timothy Brigham, MDiv, PhD; Kim Burchiel, MD; Ralph Dacey Jr, MD; Arthur Day, MD; Allan Friedman, MD; Griffith R. Harsh IV, MD; Alexander Khalessi, MD, MS; Frederick Lang Jr, MD; Frederic Meyer, MD; Karin Muraszko, MD; Charles Prestigiacomo, MD, FAANS, FACS; Warren Selman, MD; Vincent Traynelis, MD; and Alex Valadka, MD.
The Milestones are designed only for use in evaluation of resident physicians in the context of their participation in ACGME-accredited residency or fellowship programs. The Milestones provide a framework for the assessment of the development of the resident physician in key dimensions of the elements of physician competency in a specialty or subspecialty. They neither represent the entirety of the dimensions of the 6 domains of physician competency, nor are they designed to be relevant in any other context.
