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Neurosurgery Residency
Here at the University of Maryland Department of Neurosurgery, resident training is enriched through three tenants of success that guide this program.
- Patient Care: Residents learn early to deliver the highest level of medical and neurosurgical care to our patients, many from our sickest and most vulnerable populations. Our residents treat Baltimore and beyond.
- Academic Excellence: Resident-led research across all realms of neurosurgery and clinical neuroscience is fostered and supported through faculty mentorship and collaboration.
- Training the Future: Residents educate their patients and peers, lead didactic conferences, guide patient care discussions, and collaborate with faculty to make emergent and elective clinical decisions. Our graduates leave ready to lead their teams.
Guided by History’s Successes
Chartered in 1807, the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) is the fifth oldest and first public medical school in the United States and, in 1823, became the first medical school in the country to construct its own hospital for clinical instruction. This cooperation acknowledges our belief in the close relationship between excellent patient care, comprehensive medical training, and substantive scientific research.
Today that same vision guides us as we develop new laboratory facilities, patient care centers, and an extensive research library.
Neurosurgical Practice Overview
The neurosurgery faculty and residents complete over 1,600 adult and pediatric surgical procedures annually, a case load that has tripled in the past 14 years. The majority of these procedures are performed at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), where dedicated operating rooms provide faculty with new operative microscopes, an image guided stereotactic system, intraoperative angiographic capability, and electronic imaging technology.
The Department’s Gamma Knife Center houses further specialized equipment for the treatment of intracranial tumors, arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) and trigeminal neuralgia. Intensive care is provided in a neurosurgery-directed, state-of-the-art unit in the Gudelsky Building. The Department is jointly responsible for coordinating the Neurotrauma Program at the Shock Trauma Center and the Neuro-Oncology Program at the UMMC. Outpatients are seen at several UMMC clinics on the UM SOM campus.