OVERVIEW

Please join us for this annual must-attend course! Each December, NYC-MISS brings national and international practicing neurosurgeons and orthopedic spine surgeons, fellows, and residents in training to explore minimally invasive spinal surgery techniques and navigation for spinal surgery. The entire agenda is focused on teaching new operative skills and encouraging debate and discussion around MIS spine techniques. Combining didactic and case-based sessions with hands-on cadaveric dissections and learning on state-of-the-art simulation models, the course will equip participants with the skills they need to start utilizing these approaches in their own practices. 

TARGET AUDIENCE

This course is intended for local, regional, national, and international practicing neurosurgeons and orthopedic spine surgeons, fellows, and residents in training. We welcome internal WCM, Columbia, and NYP providers as well as other specialty physicians from neurology, neurological surgery, general surgery, and orthopedics at private practices, clinical sites, and academic institutions worldwide.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

It is intended that this course will lead to improved patient care, including improvements in knowledge, competence, or performance. At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• Identify the anatomy and radiology of spinal and paraspinal structures
• Determine which types of pathology are amendable to minimally invasive spinal surgery
• Be familiar with state-of-the-art minimally invasive surgery used in these approaches
• Recognize the principles of stereotactic spinal navigation and its use for minimally invasive spinal procedures
• Debate on the pros and cons of MIS approaches and election of patients for MIS surgery

ACCREDITATION

THIS COURSE IS NOT ACCREDITED FOR CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION (CME) CREDIT.

For more information please visit the official event page.