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awarded the 2006 AANS/CNS
Cloward Fellowship Award, based on his work in Emad Eskandar's
lab on selective enhancement of associative learning by
microstimulation of the anterior caudate. Manish Aghi will
be honored at the 2006 AANS Annual Meeting with the Mahaley
Award as the investigator presenting the best clinical study
in neuro-oncology.
The second major structural
change in resident training has been to systematize the
teaching of the six areas of clinical competency, as defined
by the ACGME. As you are all aware, these elements, which
embody professionalism, patient care, medical knowledge,
practice-based learning, systems-based practice, and interpersonal
communication skills have
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always been an
integral part of our program. However, it has been necessary
to systematically incorporate these items explicitly into
our didactic teaching and trainee evaluation procedures.
The evolutionary trend toward
subspecialty teaching continues to require gradual changes
in the organization of our residents' clinical years. This
is a happy circumstance, reflecting the ever-increasing
volume of work in complex spine, tumors, vascular, radiosurgery,
functional, and pediatrics. Our accepting a third trainee
every other year will facilitate the process. The first
class of three will enter this July.
Our most recent graduate
is Khalid Abbed, who is presently
the North Attending. In
July,
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he will take position as
Spine Fellow at the Cleveland Clinic.
Brian Hoh, who finished
just before Khalid, is now on the Staff of the University
of Florida Gainsville, putting his outstanding talents as
a vascular neurosurgeon to good use. We take immense pride
in the quality of these two individuals as well as all of
our present and former trainees.
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