Washington University-B-JH-SLCH Consortium Program

Program Identity & Fit

Washington University/BJH/SLCH is a quaternary academic neurosurgery program built around a 7-year curriculum with up to 24 months of protected, mentored research time and a formal Expanded Investigator Track for residents pursuing deeper physician-scientist training. The department ranks among the top NIH-funded neurosurgery programs nationally, with 12-14 federally funded laboratories, an expectation of roughly two publications per year per resident, and a dedicated Neuroscience Research Mentorship Group that vets and shepherds resident research proposals. Clinical training spans three chief-led adult services at Barnes-Jewish Hospital plus a dedicated pediatric neurosurgery rotation at St. Louis Children's Hospital, complemented by a distinctive 6-month senior registrar rotation at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, and early graduated autonomy in the OR. Sixty percent of graduates enter academic neurosurgery at other leading centers (including multiple chairs, division chiefs, and professors), signaling a program that selects for and cultivates residents oriented toward academic subspecialization and independent scholarly investigation rather than solely operative volume.