Reuben D. Johnson is a neurosurgeon in Wellington, New Zealand, where he is the Clinical Lead for Neurosurgery. He trained in Glasgow, London, Cambridge, Oxford, Melbourne, and Vicenza. Johnson completed a doctorate in Genetics of Human Language Evolution in the Department of Human Anatomy & Genetics in Oxford. He also has a dual qualification in law with an LLB from the University of London and is a Fellow of the Australasian College of Legal Medicine. He has an interest in Clinical Governance and has served on the Surgical Education and Training (SET) Board of Neurosurgery for the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia.W. Adriaan Liebenberg is a neurosurgeon and founder of The Health Collective, a multidisciplinary healthcare group integrating pain management, family medicine, and lifestyle science. With over 20 years of clinical experience, he has been instrumental in advancing patient-centred care and interventional pain medicine in South Africa. As founder and director of The Pain Collective, a chapter of The Health Collective, he has pioneered evidence-based systems and sustainable models of care that improve access, quality, and education across the healthcare continuum.

• 1: Duties and responsibilities of the junior neurosurgical trainee 2: Overview of neurosurgical patients 3: Neurosurgical pathology: cranial disorders 4: Neurosurgical pathology: spinal and peripheral nerve disorders 5: Neurosurgical history and examination 6: Interpretation of CT head scans 7: Overview of neurosurgical investigation and monitoring 8: Ward management of neurosurgical patients 9: Neuro-intensive care 10: Basic neurosurgical procedures 11: Hydrocephalus and shunt systems 12: Skull base neurosurgery 13: Spinal neurosurgery 14: Paediatric neurosurgery 15: Commonly used scoring systems in neurosurgery