Do neurosurgeons have to travel?

“For example, they may see the glamour part and think it would be pretty cool to be a brain surgeon, not realizing that the majority of neurosurgeons do mostly spine surgeries.” Neurosurgery requires physicians who have a special combination of traits, according to Dr. Narayan. read more

In the United States, a neurosurgeon must generally complete four years of undergraduate education, four years of medical school, and seven years of residency (PGY-1-7). Most, but not all, residency programs have some component of basic science or clinical research. read more

So, you have 98 residency programs graduating 136 residents a year and there are about 150 neurosurgeons leaving practice each year because of health or retirement or what-have-you. So, the number of neurosurgeons now, in the year 2007, is the same as the number of neurosurgeons in 1991, yet the population of the United States has obviously grown by a third since 1991. read more