A short history of spinal training and outlook on spine speciality development in the UK 1948–2013

[摘要] With the production of the second UK supplement under the auspices of the British Association of Spinal Surgeons (BASS), it appears appropriate to reflect on the history and evolution of spine training over the last 50 years, leading up to the challenges that we will be facing as of 2013 due to the specialist services refinement driven by the Department of Health. The authors of this editorial span three generations of spinal surgeons. Robert Mulholland is one of the first orthopaedic surgeons who recognised and promoted the development of spinal surgery as an emerging speciality field and founded The Harlow Wood Spinal Research Unit in 1974, which when Harlow Wood Hospital closed became the Spinal Research and Surgical unit at the Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham. Bronek Boszczyk is the current Head of Service of the same unit which now sees neurosurgeons and orthopaedic surgeons fused into a true comprehensive department; Jonathan Clamp is the first Fellow to have completed the new 2-year fellowship program which seamlessly joins traditional “Neuro” and “Ortho” techniques to forge fully qualified spinal surgeons.

[学科分类] 骨科学