tumor best programs

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(04-16-2022, 12:04 PM)Guest Wrote:

(04-16-2022, 10:27 AM)Guest Wrote: Depends if you’re looking for research or volume. SPORE grant recipients (BWH, UCLA, Baylor/MDA, NW, UCSF) will have the best research opportunities. Regional fancy name medical centers will have the best volume since many of these cases are not emergent and patients will seek out surgeons at hospitals they’ve heard-of and assume will have great care. There are hospitals out there with more cranial than spine or about 50:50. That’s because they’re pulling big tumor volumes

Also depends if you’re looking for skull base or just tumor volume.

Research begets volume and volume begets research. Any place with a SPORE grant will have high volume as well.

Would add Duke and MGH

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Short answer is a lot of places will get you a good tumor experience, as that will be a lot of the practice at most cranial-heavy academic programs. If you want a tumor job developing real research bona fides is important, and likely you'll need to do fellowship for the credential if not the clinical training. Agree that places with major institutional grants like SPOREs in brain tumor are good. Markers of the actual clinical volume are a little harder to determine, but any program with a CAST tumor fellowship will have very good to excellent volume as the case volume criteria for the fellowships at an institutional level are pretty high (this of course says nothing about the quality of the training you get, but if your just looking for some objective metrics regarding volumes).