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UC Irvine?
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(02-28-2021, 06:19 PM)Guest Wrote:
(02-15-2021, 10:15 PM)Guest Wrote: It's a solid west coast program. They're strengths include skull base, epilepsy, spine, and trauma. They have excellent surgeons in each of these subspecialties. The chair has the largest referral base in Orange County of skull base procedures and commonly is removing tumors or AVMs. Not many aneurysm clippings, though. The Epilepsy person is Vadera who is very collegial and a great mentor. He's on the cusp of epilepsy surgery with RNS, Rosa robot, SEEG, subdural grid, etc. They recruited a senior Spine attending a few years ago after having a run of spine attendings leave for private practice (Orange County Private Practice can be enticing, as you can imagine) but he's committed academics and does some really complex surgeries and is a great teacher in the OR. The trauma attending is very in tune with using the ICU as a way to conduct some interesting studies.

What they lack is good basic science research, thus it remains a primarily community-based program with good opportunity for clinical research. They also have some rock star residents and the Chiefs get awesome fellowships (CHOP Peds, Toronto Lozano, etc.), but about half the graduating Chiefs go into private practice too. If you want to end up in Southern California doing neurosurgery, this is a good place to train.

The Delashaw stuff is over, but it's unfortunate that the national reputation lags behind the current goings-on at Irvine.

lol no, skull base in OC goes to Hoag or even Los Angeles, and spine goes to Providence system especially with their recent Hopkins recruit who seems to be building a decent spine program

OP here. Maybe you're right and I'm wrong. Regardless, you get really good skull base cases at UC Irvine. Hsu has his own Fellowship so his cause volume provides really good exposure to a plethora of skull base surgeries. And Irvine is probably 70% cranial cases and 30% spine, but I know Michael Oh is committed to building a spine program at UC Irvine and he's brought a lot of experience over. I'm sure there's plenty of spine to around in an aging Orange County.
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#22
didnt they try to hire some ucsf senior faculty?
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#23
(03-05-2021, 02:57 PM)To Guest Wrote: didnt they try to hire some ucsf senior faculty?

No.

And stop posting this bullshit comment on every fucking post.
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#24
nobody from a place like UCSF would sign up for that. unless as chair.
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