The UCLA Department of Neurosurgery offers and participates in a wide array of interdisciplinary educational opportunities for our neurosurgery residents, fellows, medical students, and community physicians.

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

• Wednesday morning hourly conferences from 7-8 am include
  • Neurosurgery case presentations
  • Neurosurgery 100 lectures [LINK]
  • Neuropathology didactic lectures
  • Neuroradiology didactic lectures
  • Quality assurance conference
  • Faculty-resident meetings
• The first Wednesday of each month is the dedicated "education day," with a full day of educational activities for the residents who are excused from the operating room. In addition to the activities listed above, the residents participate in:
  • Cadaveric Anatomy lab
    • The neurosurgical anatomy lab is run to Warwick Peacock, MD, the former head of pediatric neurosurgery at UCLA and UCSF. Residents dissect the entire human body specimens.
  • Skullbase dissection laboratory
    • The skull base and neuroanatomy laboratory is run by Dennis Malkasian, MD, PhD., a neurosurgeon. Skull base anatomy and approaches are taught using a hands-on approach on cadaveric heads.
  • Resident-Program Director meeting
  • Multidisciplinary Pituitary-Skullbase Tumor Conference
    • An interdisciplinary conference attending by neurosurgery, endocrinology, neuroradiology, head and neck surgery, neuropathology, and radiation oncology.
  • Resident Research Committee meeting
  • Journal Club
  • Visiting professor lectureships
  • Surgical science lectures
• Additional weekly conferences available to residents include:
  • Brain Tumor Board
  • Radiosurgery Conference
  • Epilepsy Rounds
  • Neurocritical Care teaching conference
  • Pediatric Brain Tumor conference
  • Stroke/Neurovascular conference
  • Brain Injury Research Center lab meeting
• Quarterly conferences include:
  • International neurosurgery teleconference with the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
• Annual conferences include:
  • UCLA Neurocritical Care ICU of the Future conference
  • UCLA Brain Attack conference
  • UCLA Neuroendocrine and Pituitary Tumor conference

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

• Friday educational activities include
  • Neuroradiology conference with neurosurgery and neurology
  • Attending rounds
  • Journal club

Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center

• Monday educational activities include
  • Neurosurgery-Orthopedic Surgery Spine conference

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