Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

Cedars-Sinai's Neurological Surgery Residency is an academic, tertiary/quaternary program explicitly built to train future academic neurosurgeons and neurosurgical researchers rather than community proceduralists. Clinical training occurs through a large full-time faculty of neurosurgeons, spinal surgeons, neuroradiologists and neurologists, anchored by a regional Level 1 trauma center providing high-volume, high-acuity case exposure. The program offers two distinct training tracks based on resident interest and performance, and maintains dedicated basic/translational research infrastructure alongside clinical duties, with residents expected to progress academically and remain research-active throughout training. Leadership under the Center for Neurosurgical Outcomes Research signals a program that values scholarly output and outcomes-driven inquiry as integral to neurosurgical identity, not an adjunct to it.