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https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Follett12.jpg705406In making neurosurgery a department, UNMC will be joining the majority of other academic medical centers in the country in which 98 of 110 (89 percent) neurosurgery programs are departments. Seven of the eight neurosurgery programs in the Midwest region with established residency programs are departments.