Anatomy and surgical approaches; biomechanics of the cervical spine; clinical evaluation; radiology; physical medicine aspects of neck pain and electrodiagnosis; congenital anomalies; pathogenesis, clinical syndromes, differential diagnosis and conservative treatment of cervical disc diseases; anterior surgical procedures for cervical disc diseases; posterior surgical procedures for cervical disc diseases; upper cervical spine fractures; lower cervical spine fractures; cervical spine injury in the skeletally immature patient; tumours involving the cervical spine; infections involving the cervical spine; rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis of the cervical spine; cervical kyphosis; instrumentation; complications of cervical spine surgery.