Department of Surgery

The residency training program in neurosurgery consists of six years of clinical education designed to provide skills for either an academic or a clinical career. The neurosurgical residency consists of at least 36 months of clinical neurosurgery. The remaining time is assigned according to the individual resident’s interests and can include neuroradiology, neuropathology, neurology, radiosurgery, surgical epilepsy, pediatric neurosurgery, neuro-oncology, spinal disorders or research. The residency training program in neurosurgery consists of six years of clinical education designed to provide skills for either an academic or a clinical career.

UK's division of Neurosurgery has been awarded $1,240,734 over five years by the NIH Blueprint Translational Neuroscience Training Grant entitled "Therapeutic Strategies for Neurodegeneration." This grant will fund five predoctoral students per year and two post docs (Ph.D and M.D.) beginning the second year. Applicants should be interested in a career in translational therapeutic discovery in the areas of spinal cord and brain injury, stoke or Parkinson's disease. Each of the Ph.D. trainees, in addition to pursuing therapeutically-oriented basic research training, will have Clinical Tutorials designed specifically for them that provides significant exposure to the clinical aspects of their neurological disorder of interest. These will include shadowing clinicians, participating in rounds and attendance at Grand Rounds and other activities. One of the post-doctoral positions is for a neurological or neurosurgical resident or fellow who desires to spend a year doing clinically relevant basic research in one or more of the basic science training faculty laboratories.