Do not sub-i at the barrow, better chances to match if you interview well and played sports. If you didnt play sports dont apply to barrow. If you have high research aspirations dont apply to barrow. If you want to be a badass private surgeon who talked about sports all residency then go to barrow, or do ortho.
I hear they are trying to poach top spine talent from UCSF
Completely agree. Better operative experience seen during my sub-I there than anywhere in the country. Is it perfect for everyone's (sometimes naive) stated interest as an MS4? Of course not.
From the article: “What makes a great surgeon is unrelenting practice.” So, you can complain about "athletes" (read: people with tangible interests that include things other than neurosurgery) or make light of "private surgeon" training. However, academic neurosurgery is filled to the brim with people who enjoy "talking about neurosurgery", but who out of residency couldn't operate their way out of a wet paper bag because they spent 7 years triple-scrubbing laminectomies. Barrow tends to train surgeons who enjoy...being surgeons.