What the hell is going in Minnesota program...They fired their chief resident, their chairman left to join Brown and demoted from a chair to vice-chair, and their program director left a few years ago to join private practice. I remember when I interviewed there many years ago, they were on a great trajectory with a great infrastructure. I could understand that people move for different reasons but to fire one of your chief residents is completely unacceptable.

Can we talk about the (?ex) Penn student on Twitter? What the hell is going on.

Now that Bob Gross has left Emory, where’s the best functional fellowship(s)? Toronto? Cleveland clinic? Stanford? USCF? Penn? Baylor? Others?

Like you don't need a spine fellowship. But pediatrics is a hard requirement.

Is is possible to practice skull base, endovascular, neuro-onc, etc. without a fellowship?

I've heard mixed things on this

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In the job search now and curious if signing a letter of intent would carry any legal risk? Is it fine to continue interviewing at other places after signing a letter of intent at one place? One of the places I interviewed at has been pushing to sign the letter of intent ASAP and I have not finished all my interviews yet.

Lastly, when do you start negotiating the contract/final deal? after signing the letter of intent or you have to negotiate the letter of intent itself?

Harjus Birk finally filed a lawsuit against UCSD. At least it's publicly available now. It's crazy if the allegations are true

https://trellis.law/doc/127007367/compla...-san-diego

If one is interested in doing research about 50% of the time and clinical work to supplement their income, which is a better fellowship to pursue: Endovascular or Spine?

1. Which subI had the better experience
2. Which subI writes the better letter if anyone happens to know