Peds

[Guest]

Anyone know what a peds neurosurgery salary is?

[Focus]

Starting right out fellowship? Base salary ranges 350 to 650 depending on practice style and geography. There will always be outliers of course. Mixed adult/peds practice, scoli practice, private/pracademic practice, and undesirable locations often pay more.

[Guest]

Thank you neurosurgery focus!

[Guest]

Is there any work-around to be able to do an enfolded pediatrics fellowship (i.e. total training = 7 years)?

[Guest]

Not if you want to be boarded

[Focus]

No there is not. The reason is peds is a separate board so you could almost think of it as a different specialty. The prerequisite of the specialty is a neurosurgery residency and so none of your cases during neurosurgery residency count towards your fellowship accreditation.

[Guest]

Is it common for people to practice for several years after residency as a general neurosurgeon prior to fellowship in pediatrics?

[Focus]

No but it happens.

[Guest]

The ABPNS has always wanted it to be a separate specialty, but it isn't. Your credentials as a residency-trained board-eligible neurosurgeon will include everything under the sun except endovascular privileges.

Yes, pediatric hospitals may require fellowship training in their hiring process, but compensation remains low because peds neurosurgeons cannot leverage the monopoly on trauma/NICU coverage that pediatric general surgeons have created for themselves.

This longstanding turf war will resolve one way or another as the current generation of general neurosurgeons, who have long provided a component of pediatric services, leave the workforce and are replaced by new grads who are 'not comfortable' doing any pediatrics.