The Emory University Neurosurgery Spine Fellowship offers specialized orthopaedic neurosurgery experience. The educational goal of the fellowship is to create an academic neurosurgery physician. This fellowship experience focuses on spinal oncology, spinal radiosurgery, degenerative and rheumatologic spinal disease, trauma, infectious diseases of the spine, and revision spine surgery. Responsibilities include seeing patients in the outpatient setting as well as rounding on inpatients and functioning as an educator in the department with the expectation of teaching residents in the clinic and operating room. The fellow will function as Senior Associate in the Department of Orthopaedics, thus having full clinical and operative privileges. Additionally, the fellow will be required to attend weekly conferences and journal club.
The fellow will also be expected to participate in research including clinical and pre-clinical studies as well as basic science research and produce a minimum of one research paper.
The Neurosurgery Spine Fellowship offers 2 fellow position per year.
