Neurosurgical Summer Course for Overseas Students: A Step toward Better Dialogue with the Future Working Teams

Abstract

Background: The 12-year collaboration between Greifswald and Cairo Universities in Neurosurgery has recently reached stable steps in post-graduate education represented in the bi-institutional fellowship of Neuro-endoscopy. Aim: We present our new experience of upgrading the level of bi-institutional collaboration to serve for highly skilled undergraduate training. Methods: we started a summer school program for the Egyptian medical students, with the target of allowing better orientation with the specialty Results: 10 candidates (6 males and 4 females) were selected to participate in the program. All candidates successfully finished the summer school and stated they would recommend this activity to their colleagues. Conclusion: We recommend the summer school activities either within the host university or abroad in a collaborate university to the students that would be preselected to fit in the planned program. It is our opinion this would assist the young generations in choosing the suitable career and help in improving the quality of the working teams in Neurosurgery in the future.