Hands-on Surgical Techniques Course
Key Dates | Course Information
Hands-on Surgical Techniques Course
July 17 – 19, 2025
Indiana Spine Group, Medical Academic Center
Indianapolis, Indiana
Primary Audience: Senior level orthopedic (PGY4 and up) and neurosurgery (PGY5 and up) residents and fellows.
Accepted scholarship recipients will receive complimentary course registration, hotel and airfare. CSRS will fund 32 US-based, senior-level residents and fellows to attend this course.
Applications are now closed.
"Really appreciate the opportunity to attend and interact with everybody. Best course I’ve attended as a resident."
Key Dates
Application open: March 1, 2024
Application closes: March 25, 2024
Acceptance decisions: Mid-April to mid-May 2024
Hands-on Surgical Techniques Course begins: July 18-20, 2024
"It was an overall amazing course with little room for improvement!"
Course Information
The course will cover the latest advances and techniques of the cervical spine including:
- Understanding the intricate anatomy of the uncinate process, nerve roots, the vertebral artery, foramen and identify their relationship to each other
- Discuss surgical indications and complication management for cervical spine procedures
- Review and perform the following cervical spine procedures on cadaveric tissue:
- Anterior and posterior surgical approaches including: laminotomy, foraminotomy, laminoplasty, laminectomy, and facetectomy
- Fusion techniques including: occipital-cervical constructs, C1-2 fixation, subaxial screw and rod constructs
- Anterior decompression techniques including: disectomy, foraminotomy, corpectomy
- Anterior fusion techniques including: interbody and corpectomy grafting, as well as subaxial plate, odontoid fixation and cages
- Transoral approach to dens resection
