Match Day and the Looming Shortage of Doctors
Most people aren’t aware that by 2025 the nation faces a huge shortfall of doctors — including 37,000 to 60,000 specialists. Since Neurosurgery Blog has spent the last month focusing on graduate medical education (GME), we wanted to take a moment to highlight medical resident “Match Day” and the looming shortage of doctors. Complicating this […]
The Burden of Debt: Impacting GME
Maya A. Babu, MD, MBA (left) Neurosurgical Resident, Mayo Clinic Vice-Chair, CSNS Communications and Education Committee Rochester, MN William Metcalf-Doetsch, MD (right) Neurosurgical Resident, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, IL Like all higher education, completion of medical school comes with a hefty price tag and likely significant post-graduation debt. This issue has been […]
Cross Post – Ensuring an Adequate Specialty Physician Workforce for the 21st Century
On April 5, 2016, Morning Consult published an opinion piece featuring the Alliance of Specialty Medicine and neurosurgery’s own H. Hunt Batjer, MD, FAANS, president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. The article, “Ensuring an Adequate Specialty Physician Workforce for the 21st Century,” addresses a number of key points related to the topic of […]
March Madness
Deborah L. Benzil, MD, FACS, FAANS, AANS (left) Chair, AANS/CNS Communications and Public Relations Committee Mount Kismo Medical Group Columbia University Medical Center Mt Kisco, New York Guest Post from Clemens M. Schirmer, MD, PhD, FAANS, FAHA (right) Vice-Chair, AANS/CNS Communications and Public Relations Committee Geisinger Health System Wilkes Barre, PA During the month of […]
Match Day 2016: How Neurosurgery Stacks Up
Guest Post from Clemens M. Schirmer, MD, PhD, FAANS, FAHA Vice-Chair, AANS/CNS Communications and Public Relations Committee Geisinger Health System Wilkes Barre, PA Neurosurgery is a noble profession, and for most of us, choosing this specialty for our career was a calling. However, the training required is a long and arduous pathway with many potential […]
Faces of Neurosurgery: Legacy Lineage-Cushing, Van Wagenen and Marko
Guest post from Kristopher T. Kimmell, MD Neurosurgical Resident, University of Rochester Medical Center Rochester, NY The training of all physicians is a long and arduous path. After college, there are four years of medical school. The first years are dedicated to understanding the underpinnings of biologic processes and how diseases derange this normal functioning in […]
Change Shift-work Aspects of Resident Duty Hours System to Improve Patient Care
Robert E. Harbaugh, MD, FAANS, FACS, FAHA President, Society of Neurological Surgeons On March 16-17, 2016, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) convened the“Resident Duty Hours in the Learning and Working Environment Congress“ in Chicago. Before the meeting, leaders of organized neurosurgery submitted a white paper on resident duty hours to the ACGME, and […]
“Boot Camps” Lead the Way in Modern Neurosurgical GME
Nathan R. Selden, MD, PhD Campagna Professor and Chair Department of Neurological Surgery Oregon Health & Science University Portland, Oregon The specialty-wide “boot camp” movement began in neurological surgery. Many local and global forces in graduate medical education (GME) have driven the adoption and spread of boot camps: Neurosurgery assumed responsibility for the internship or […]
Embracing the Future of Neurosurgical Leadership
Krystal L. Tomei, MD, MPH Pediatric Neurosurgeon, Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital and University Hospitals Case Medical Center Chair of the CNS Resident Committee Cleveland, OH Leadership has always been an essential skill within medicine but that need has accelerated with the sweeping changes in health care. Traditionally, gaining these skills has happened more by […]
Increasing Residency Slots is Key to Preventing Doctor Shortage
Guest post from Representative Joe Crowley, D-N.Y., Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus and a member of the powerful Ways and Means Committee. He is the author of the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act (H.R. 2124). The past several years have seen tremendous attention paid to rethinking and improving our nation’s health care system. […]