Good resources to learn foundational neurosurgery concepts

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I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on good resources to learn basic/foundational neurosurgery concepts? Start my sub-I in 3 months and it would be helpful to have a good base of foundational knowledge being going in. I took a look at Greenberg but it doesn't seem to the greatest introductory resources.

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Principles of Neurological Surgery, Ellenbogen

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Read all 10 articles.
https://journals.lww.com/onsonline/toc/2019/08001

Greenberg is fine on a case by case basis. Not something you would read cover to cover as a medical student.

[Guest]

Dura deck (anki)

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I tried Dura deck as an MS4, and the "medical students and interns" deck was a sloppy copy/pasted mess with tons of typo's and half the cards were screenshots from First Aid. I did not find it a usable resource.

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^^second this. The guys that did the dura deck did an extremely sloppy job. They basically just copied and pasted from Greenberg rapid review and then clozed words. Some cards have upwards of 8 clozed deletions. Not a good learning tool.
Without making accusations, it appears to have been done to bolster their CV rather than to provide a good learning tool.

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There's this deck as well but similarly appears to be sloppy.

https://twitter.com/KeenanPiper1/status/...C6xYYtAAAA

Honestly, probably just best to read an introductory neurosurgery textbook the good old fashioned way.

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[Guest]

there's an official Greenberg deck now https://shop.thieme.com/Greenberg-s-Neur...0325470101

costs money which is annoying but it's like a thousand times better than the dura deck and other ones that were made as CV boosters

[Guest]

Greenberg is still probably inefficient to go through as an introductory guide.

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How are u supposed to read 500 page textbook?