Any good websites and resources to stay up to date with the key papers/advances in the field or even some old publications of significant impact? My program doesn't do a good job in journal club so wonder how what residents from other programs do or recommend. I know the easiest way is to browse the JNS, Red journal...etc every month or so but it's cumbersome and sometimes there are no high impact publications
Anything by Roy Patchel, C Miller Fisher, Frank Schwab, ARUBA(for how not to do a study), NASCET, CREST, ACAS, DAWN, DEFUSE, ISAT, BRAT, SPORT, MOMS to name a few. Ask your attendings, it shows your interested and they'll have additional rec's. JNS has a link to the 'top 50 or 100' most cited articles, also. Outside of the more historical articles, I would recommend browsing JNS and red journal abstracts (not necessarily reading the articles) and pulling 1-2 a week that interest you. You can read them during downtime (before cases, etc.) I always have 1-2 articles folded up and tucked into my scrubs or white coat for this.
Hope this is somewhat helpful.
The landmark papers are a good start but many papers are just of historical interest.
There are some "Classic" papers that any NSGY resident should read and the above post is a great starting point.
Beyond that, you need to have either 1) a question you want to explore (e.g., SRS for acoustics or recurrence after aneurysm coiling, etc.) or 2) have a suitable background with which to interpret new papers coming out in red/white journals. IMHO the way to do #2 is to start by reading some intro textbooks (not Greenberg). Suspect this will be higher yield for Jr residents who are starting to build background
(Disclaimer - This is not Poster #7)
So I think part of the issue here is that you shouldn't think of a 'junior resident level'. You should be learning at the 'neurosurgeon level' with the understanding that a junior resident may not have the breadth of knowledge that an attending has. I'd recommend a textbook series such as Youman's, and just making a reading plan of a chapter every week or whatever seems reasonable. DO NOT expect 100% retention from the first read throughs, your whole goal as a jr should be to get through material so that it's familiar when you're re reading it as a senior or chief. Similarly, just because you're not doing acoustics doesn't mean you can't reap significant benefits from Rhoton as a PGY 1 or 2. Some of the operative relational anatomy may not be as intuitive, but the reality is that for the majority of these topics, the primary correlation to mastery is time spent reading them. You WILL learn neuroanatomy if you spend meaningful, goal-oriented time reading the chapters, even if you may not see the distal dural ring in the OR every day.