Residents will be allowed to attend one meeting per year with meeting registration,
travel, hotel, and per diem paid for by the department.
Attendance to the Georgia Neurosurgical Society meetings is encouraged, and will not
count towards the one meeting per year restriction. The Society pays a portion of
the expenses for a resident to attend the meeting. The Department will pay the remainder
up to a specific budget amount to be determined.
Senior PGY-7 residents will be eligible to attend an additional meeting per year with
registration, travel, hotel and per diem paid for by the department. Guidelines for attendance
still apply.
General Guidelines for Attendance
Approved meetings must be in the continental United States.
All meeting attendance requires approval from the Chief Resident for scheduling of
coverage requirements. Leave requests must be submitted and approved by the chief
resident, program director and program coordinator via the leave request form.
Approval to attend a particular meeting is conditional on acceptance of a paper or
poster to that meeting. In other words, a resident must present a paper or poster
in order to attend the meeting.
Presented papers or posters must be submitted as a manuscript for publication prior
to approval for future meeting attendance.
Typically, the approved meetings for attendance will be the major neurosurgery meetings
(e.g., CNS, AANS, AANS/CNS Section meeting, and Southern Neurosurgical); however,
other major meetings (e.g., Society for Neuroscience) will be considered on a case
by case basis.
Additional courses and meetings will require faculty approval, independent funding,
excused leave if presenting a paper and vacation time if not presenting a paper.
The R1 (PGY2) resident will be restricted to attending a meeting after January 1,
and will be conditional on excellent performance in duties.
