LECTURES BY NEUROSURGERY AND NEUROLOGY FACULTY AT UNITED-STATES MEDICAL-SCHOOLS

The lecture activity of neurology and neurosurgery faculty at allopath ic medical schools during the academic years 1985-1986 through 1987-19 88 was surveyed. Lectures were categorized into three combinations for analysis: first- and second-year basic science, first- and second-yea r clinical, and third- and fourth-year clinical lectures. Both faculti es delivered more hours of clinical than basic science lectures, and t his held true at most schools. Neurology provided lectures at more sch ools in each of these categories, as well as offering more hours of le cture per student (school medians: 11.5, 18.0, 13.8) than did neurosur gery (school medians: 6.0, 5.5, 8.0). However, neurology faculty numbe r two-and-a-half times neurosurgery faculty. Lectures given per teachi ng neurology faculty member (12.2) averaged approximately the same as per teaching neurosurgery faculty member (11.5). Increased exposure to the lectures of neurology or neurosurgery faculty did not increase su bsequent student enrollment in a first clinical clerkship in that disc ipline when students had a choice of clerkships.