General at Stanford University

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The International Visitorship, awarded by the CNS Foundation in collaboration with Stanford University, is a 3-6 month long visitorship that was created with the objective of sharing experience with not only current residents and fellows, but also neurosurgeons and residents from all over the country and the world. The awardee as part of the observership will be participating in clinical practice during her/his time at Stanford. She/He will have an opportunity to assist the senior neurosurgeon with all the surgeries and clinics, where the awardee will be guided within every part of the surgery, including the OR step-up, patient position, exposure, tumor dissection and removal, and reconstruction. In OR, the awardee can acquire the knowledge about the surgery under the 4K endoscopic view or 3D microscopic view. The awardee will also participate in the skull base surgery conferences, review clinical cases and surgical planning in the Stanford Neurosurgical Simulation and Virtual Reality Center, as review skull base anatomy and participate in research projects based at the NeuroTraIn center, Stanford’s skull base laboratory. Upon completion of the observership, the awardee will have obtained a full understanding of skull base anatomy, pathologies, and surgical approaches while also understanding the importance and strength of an interdisciplinary team that works together.

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