HIGHER SPECIALITY

 

POST GRADUATE DEGREE STANDARD

PAPER -I CODE:---

1. BASIC GENERAL SCIENCES AND INVESTIGATIVE NEURO SURGERY

I. BASIC SCIENCES

(a) Physics
(b) Electricity, AC & DC
(c) Light,
(d) Sound,
(e) Electro Magnetism,
(f) Ultrasound, &
(g) Laser.

II. COMPUTER SCIENCE

III. STATISTICS

2. BASIC NEUROSCIENCES

I NEURO ANATOMY
(a) Surgical Anatomy
(b) Micro surgical Anatomy
(c) Endoscopic Anatomy

II NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
III NEUROPATHOLOGY
IV NEUROCHEMISTRY
V NEUROPHARMACOLOGY

3 NEURO RADIOLOGY

I Tomography of skull and spine
II CT Scan
III MRI & MRA & MR Spectrascopy
IV PET / SPECT
V Angiography
VI Mylography
VII Others

(a) EEG
(b) EMG
(c) Nerve Conduction Study
(d) Evoked Potential
(e) Electrocorticography
(f) Brain Mapping
(g) Ultrasonography of Brain
(h) Transcranial Doppler
4. INTERVENTIONAL NEURORADIOLOGY

5. CLINICAL NEUROLOGY
I Basic Neurology
II Neurological Disease
III Congenital Malformation
IV Developmental Anomaly
V Elicitation Interpretation of
Neurological Symptoms and signs
VI Brain death

PAPER - II

Clinical Neuro Surgery, practice of Neuro Surgery and Recent Advances

1. History
2. Diagnostic Aids

a) Intracranial Pressure Monitoring
b) Intra Operative Monitoring.

3. Developmental Anomalies – Operative Surgery
4. Trauma – Operative Surgery
5. Bacterial infections
6. Parasitic and Fungal infections
7. Vascular diseases
8. Spine and Spinal cord – Disorders – Operative Surgery
9. Intracranial Tumors – Operative Surgery
10. Stereotaxy
11. Movement disorders
12. Cerebral Palsy
13. Epilepsy
14. Functional & Sedative Neuro Surgery
15. pain
16. Miscellaneous
a) Neuro Anaesthesia
b) Pre & Post operative care
17. Recent Developments in Neurosurgery
a) Neuro Endoscopy
b) Gene Therapy
c) Immuno Therapy
d) Neuro Navigation.
18. Neuro Rehabilitation
19. Medico Legal Aspects in Neurosurgery.
20. Paediatric Neuro surgery.