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department of neurosurgery

Residency Program

 

Facilities and Affiliated Hospitals

 

The Temple Neurosurgery program is based at Temple University Hospital and the integrated Temple University Children's Medical Center. In addition, Abington Memorial Hospital is a suburban approved teaching affiliate. Also listed below are several "feeder" hospital when the faculty provides neurosurgical coverage and which serve as referral sources for the main teaching facilities. The residents are based exclusively at the the three primary teaching hospitals and do not rotate at any of the other facilities.

 

Temple University Hospital

 Temple University Hospital

The Neurosurgery and Neurology Services are located together on the fourth floor of the Rock Pavilion Building at Temple University Hospital. This floor houses a state-of-the-art, eight bed, dedicated Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Located on the same floor are 34 regular floor beds, which are shared by the two services.

 

Continuous EEG monitoring, transcranial Doppler, SPECT and the entire spectrum of routine radiological studies are readily available. There are two designated neurosurgical operating rooms, which are fully equipped with all of the latest neurosurgical equipment including two new Zeiss microscopes, frame-based and frameless stereotaxy, neurophysiological monitoring capability and intraoperative angiography.

 

A residents library adjoins the NICU. In addition to the latest textbooks and journals, the library contains a state-of-the-art computer set-up for multi-media presentations.

 

 

Temple Univeristy Children's

Medical Center

 Temple University Children's Medical Center

This state-of-the art facility was completed in 1997 and started doing neurosurgical cases in September 1999. TUCMC houses 60 acute care pediatric beds and a 30 bed neonatal ICU that services one of the busiest obstetrical services in the country.

 

TUCMC is located on the main Temple University Medical campus and is attached to the new Shriners Hospital, which moved onto this campus from a more suburban location. The Shriners Hospital has an active spinal surgery and scoliosis program.

 

 
Abington Memorial Hospital

This private 508 bed hospital located approximately nine miles from the Temple University Campus is staffed primarily by Drs. Steven Barrer and Mike Yoon. Abington Memorial is an integral part of the Temple Neurosurgical residency and provides residents with an exposure to a broad -based community neurosurgical practice.

 

 

Founded in 1904 as the country's first cancer hospital (American Oncologic Hospital), Fox Chase Cancer Center became a Temple academic affiliate in 1999. Its 100 bed facility is the fourth largest cancer hospital in the country. It is located on the same campus as Jeanes Hospital, about 20 minutes from TUH. It provides the program with access to neurooncological cases as well as reconstructive surgery for spinal metastatic disease.

 

 
Northeastern Hospital

This 200 bed facility was acquired by the Temple University Health System in 1995. Neurosurgical consultative services at this facility are provided by Temple faculty. Residents do not go to Northeastern Hospital.

 

 

This 186 bed facility is located approximately fifteen minutes away from Temple University Hospital. Neurosurgical coverage is provided by Temple faculty. Residents do not routinely go to Roxborough Hospital.

 
Jeanes Hospital

This 250 bed hospital is located in a lovely suburban setting adjacent to Fox Chase Cancer Center. It became part of the Temple University Healthcare System in 1996. Temple faculty have been staffing this facility since July 1997. Residents do not routinely rotate through Jeanes Hospital.