Neurophysiology training in the Neurology Specialist Education Program in Spain.

Introduction: The training period in neurophysiology is a substantial part of the Neurology Specialist Program in Spain. The National Neurology Committee (La Comisión Nacional de Neurología (CNN), which is the body reporting to the Ministries of Health and Education, must ensure compliance to the Program.

Material And Methods: During the first trimester of 2008, the CNN sent a questionnaire, in which there was a question asking about this training period, to each of the managers of the 69 teaching units accredited for neurology training in Spain, for them to answer.

[Specific neurology emergency training of medical residents in Spain].

Introduction: Training in emergency neurological illness is very important for the neurologist today. The Neurology National Commission has decided to obtain information on the work duties of neurologist residents in the different neurology units of the hospitals of our country and the supervision of the training in urgent pathology.

Method: A survey of adult neurology program directors to find out if their hospital fulfils the program criteria for the residents duty work.

[Analysis of the neurology teaching unit in Spain and compliance of accreditation criteria].

Introduction: Faced with the promulgation of the Health Care Professionals Ordinance Law and the publication of the new program of the Neurology training, the National Committee of neurology has considered it necessary to know the current situation of the Teaching Units (TU) accredited for the neurology training in regards to the existing accreditation criteria (AC). The purpose of this study is to know said situation.

Methods: A cross-sectional study performed by a voluntarily filled-out survey (ad hoc questionnaire) sent by regular mail in the year 2005 to all the TU accredited at that time.

[The need for specialist assistance in neurology].

Introduction: The need for specialist attention in neurology in a particular population is not constant but may vary over a period of time, depending on a series of changeable conditions. For this reason it is useful to make periodical reappraisals, so as to adapt the services available to the true needs of the population at any particular time.

Development: In this paper we consider the steps to be followed when carrying out a study of the need for attention, and analyze the variables which influence the calculation of the number of neurologists necessary in a particular population, and the methods of obtaining information and identifying requirements.