TY - JOUR
T1 - The Neurology and Neurosurgery Interest Group (NANSIG)-ten years of cultivating interest in clinical neurosciences
AU - Neurology and Neurosurgery Interest Group (NANSIG)
AU - Park, Jay J
AU - Ooi, Setthasorn Zhi Yang
AU - Gillespie, Conor S
AU - Bandyopadhyay, Soham
AU - Chowdhury, Yasir A
AU - Solomou, Georgios
AU - Gough, Melissa
AU - Kanmounye, Ulrick Sidney
AU - Yanez Touzet, Alvaro
AU - Poon, Michael T C
AU - Demetriades, Andreas K
AU - Jenkinson, Michael D
AU - Jenkins, Alistair
N1 - Funding Information:
NANSIG would like to thank all collaborating organisations—SBNS, BNTRC, ABN, EANS, AFAN and BPNA—for their unwavering support. Neurology and Neurosurgery Interest Group (NANSIG): Conor S Gillespie; Soham Bandyopadhyay; Setthasorn Zhi Yang Ooi, Jay Jaemin Park, Alvaro Yanez Touzet, Emily R Bligh, George E Richardson, Abigail Clynch, Abdullah Egiz, Seong Hoon Lee, Oliver Burton, William Bolton, Bharti Kewlani, Moritz Steinruecke, Avani Shanbhag, Joshua Erhabor, Orla Mantle.
Funding Information:
The authors declare that no specific grant for this research was received from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors. CSG is supported by a grant from the Wolfson Foundation. MTCP is supported by Cancer Research UK Brain Tumour Centre of Excellence Award (C157/A27589).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/4
Y1 - 2022/4
N2 - Collaboration and successful teamworking are important components of clinical practise, and these skills should be cultivated early in medical school. The breadth of current medical school curricula means that students often have limited exposure to clinical neurosciences. Since its inception in 2009, the Neurology and Neurosurgery Interest Group (NANSIG) has become a national (UK and Republic of Ireland) example of student and junior doctor synergistic collaboration to deliver educational materials, research, conferences, seminars and workshops, as well as advocating for diversity in this field. Recently, it has expanded to incorporate an international audience and cater for a larger group of young medical professionals. The organisation has overcome numerous challenges and is constantly innovating new approaches to harness the necessary knowledge, skills and network to succeed in a career in neurosciences, neurology and neurosurgery. This article summarises the initiatives undertaken by the group over its first 10 years of existence and its organisational structure, as well as its future plans.
AB - Collaboration and successful teamworking are important components of clinical practise, and these skills should be cultivated early in medical school. The breadth of current medical school curricula means that students often have limited exposure to clinical neurosciences. Since its inception in 2009, the Neurology and Neurosurgery Interest Group (NANSIG) has become a national (UK and Republic of Ireland) example of student and junior doctor synergistic collaboration to deliver educational materials, research, conferences, seminars and workshops, as well as advocating for diversity in this field. Recently, it has expanded to incorporate an international audience and cater for a larger group of young medical professionals. The organisation has overcome numerous challenges and is constantly innovating new approaches to harness the necessary knowledge, skills and network to succeed in a career in neurosciences, neurology and neurosurgery. This article summarises the initiatives undertaken by the group over its first 10 years of existence and its organisational structure, as well as its future plans.
KW - Humans
KW - Neurology
KW - Neurosciences/education
KW - Neurosurgery/education
KW - Neurosurgical Procedures
KW - Public Opinion
KW - Students, Medical
U2 - 10.1007/s00701-022-05113-0
DO - 10.1007/s00701-022-05113-0
M3 - Review article
C2 - 35039958
SN - 0001-6268
VL - 164
SP - 937
EP - 946
JO - Acta Neurochirurgica
JF - Acta Neurochirurgica
IS - 4
ER -