The mission of the Young Neurosurgeons Section is to educate, interest, and involve young and resident neurosurgeons in current CSNS and AANS/CNS organizational activities related to socioeconomic issues of neurosurgery practice. This committee undertakes research and report or educational projects on issues of particular interest to young neurosurgeons, including job search, practice initiation, Board certification and recertification, training conditions, practice economics, and other related topics. Examples of work done by this committee includes:

Production of educational curriculum in neurosurgery for medical students with core educational content on the CNS website (www.neurosurgeon.org ) as “Gray Matter”.

Performed a resident work hour survey exploring the consequences of 80 hour work week on education and patient care. The results of this survey was published in the journal ‘Neurosurgery’.

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