An analysis (time study) of service and education in a neurosurgery residency program.

A time study analysis of the activities of neurosurgery residents, allocating their time to one of four categories (service, education, questionable, personal), indicates that the service-education percentage ratio is 44.65:37.34 during the week and 61.50:28.11 for the weekend. The distribution of activities within service and education categories identifies the extent to which a neurosurgery resident in this program is a student, although most of the "service" activities are those that a neurosurgeon must learn to perform efficiently in order to practice his specialty.