Cross-Post: It’s Never Too Late to Pivot From N.F.L. Safety to Neurosurgeon
From time to time on Neurosurgery Blog, you will see us cross-posting or linking to items from other places that we believe will be of interest to our readers. Today’s post originally appeared in the New York Times on Oct. 11 as part of the “It’s Never Too Late” series. The article discusses how Myron […]
Creating Tomorrow’s Neurosurgical Leaders Today
Guest post from Matthew A. Hunt, MD, Associate Professor and Resident Program Director, University of Minnesota Department of Neurosurgery Coridon J. Quinn, MD, Neurosurgery Resident, University of Minnesota Kristi Olafson, Stone River Consulting, LLC, St. Paul, Minnesota Teach a neurosurgeon to be a leader? If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense. […]
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 […]
Neurosurgical GME Inspiring Innovation: The Research Update in Neuroscience for Neurosurgeons (RUNN) Course
Allan H. Friedman, MD, FAANS (left) The Guy L. Odom Professor of Neurological Surgery Department of Neurosurgery Duke University Health System Durham, NC Robert M. Friedlander, MD, FAANS (right) Chair, Walter E. Dandy Professor of Neurological Surgery University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pittsburgh, PA We take the brightest and most creative medical students on the […]
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 […]
Spotlighting Medical Resident Training and Education: GME Month
Deborah L. Benzil, MD, FACS, FAANS, AANS (right) Chair, AANS/CNS Communications and Public Relations Committee Mount Kismo Medical Group Columbia University Medical Center Mt Kisco, New York Graduate medical education (GME) provides the essential foundation for the future of medicine, including neurosurgery. As such, Neurosurgery Blog will devote the month of March to a comprehensive […]
Resident Reflection: Holding the Line against Apathy
Guest post from Ahilan Sivaganesan, MD Neurosurgery Resident Physician, Vanderbilt University Medical Center The vast majority of physicians enter medicine with an inborn sense of compassion. Junior residents, however, are the logistical workhorses of teaching hospitals — their north star is efficiency and they are measured largely on their capacity to “get things done.” The […]
GME Changes: Are we in danger of throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
Guest Post from Maya A. Babu, MD (left) Neurosurgical Resident, Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN and Brian V. Nahed, MD (right) Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Boston, MA The recent Institute of Medicine (IOM) report heralding potentially major changes in the world of graduate medical education (GME) funding has brought […]