Senior

Of or for older or more experienced people.

see Senior resident.

Training neurosurgical residents about intraoperative decision-making appears to be ad-hoc and dependent on both the institution and the availability and willingness of senior surgeons to make this a part of their pedagogy 1).

1)
Granek L, Shapira S, Roth J, Constantini S. Can Good Intraoperative Judgement Be Taught?: Pediatric Neurosurgeons' Pedagogical Approaches to Training Residents on Intraoperative Decision-Making. J Surg Educ. 2021 Apr 2:S1931-7204(21)00059-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2021.03.006. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33814338.