A few thoughts on the current situation of neurosurgery spinal subspecialty residency training

Spinal department of neurosurgery develops in an all-round way in many European and American countries. The amount spinal surgery can reach half of all the department of neurosurgery surgery. It can be seen that spinal department of neurosurgery has huge development potential. Because of historical reasons, department of neurosurgery in China is less involved in the treatment of spinal and spinal cord diseases, and the diagnosis and treatment techniques in related fields are relatively backward. It is urgent to develop the spinal department of neurosurgery in China, whereas the bottleneck is talent training and reserve. This training program of spinal department of neurosurgery talent development intends to solve this problem. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-6731.2017.10.010