Houston Methodist Graduate Medical Education
Neurosurgery Residency The goal of our seven-year program is to train the next generation of neurosurgical leaders and to provide the highest standard of care while integrating top‑level research and leading‑ edge technology into every layer of education. We believe in early operative exposure for all residents, and our program provides extensive exposure to advanced operative techniques. These include awake craniotomy, complex vascular and skull base surgery, intraoperative imaging, intraoperative neurophysiological technology, and complex spinal deformity correction, with intraoperative O-arms to aid with teaching techniques. There is also extensive exposure to the specialties of neuropathology, neurology, and neuroradiology. In addition, the program includes a full year of protected research, rotations in pediatric neurosurgery, and an opportunity to complete a six‑month elective rotation in London, England – providing residents a unique exposure to a different system of medical care. We are currently building two adjoining hybrid suites, equipped with iMRI, to accompany our seven existing neurosurgical operating rooms. One will serve as a state-of-the-art neuroendoscopy suite with 4K and 3D images, and integrated neural navigation with multiple inputs and outputs. The other will focus on intracranial vascular surgery, and be equipped with intraoperative angiography, dynamic CT with 3D reconstruction, and Synaptive imaging. Our residents finish the program with surgical skills that most do not have until well after fellowship training, and significant clinical and basic research experience and credentials equivalent to or better than most junior neurosurgical faculty at other institutions.
CONTACT
houstonmethodist.org/neurosurgery-residency
Program Director David Baskin, MD
Program Coordinator Corina Gutierrez 713.441.3696 | cmgutierrez2@houstonmethodist.org
2 residents per training level World-class surgical simulation in MITIESM >5000 neurosurgical cases annually Full year of protected research International elective rotation at St. George’s University in London Pediatric neurosurgery rotations at Texas Children’s Hospital and Dell Children’s Hospital in Austin