Discussion on subspecialty training for refresher neurosurgeons

Many subspecialties of neurosurgery have emerged in China and abroad with the development of neurosurgical science, such as vascular neurosurgery, skull base surgery, spine surgery, etc. In order to meet this situation, training of subspecialty for refresher neurosurgeons is mandatory. In this article, we discuss the entry background of the refresher neurosurgeon, training program and training purpose in different subspecialties of neurosurgery, in the same time, we suggest that the training course should include not only the subspecialty, but general knowledge of neurosurgery.