Can someone who did a Sub-I here this year tell a bit about their experience in the usual format? Can you also comment on the case load of the residents and how much they operate? Have heard that in the past most cases were double or triple scrubbed and residents were not getting the best operational experience. Any truth to this?

Does anyone actually report these lol bc happens all the time

2. A program director asks an applicant about ranking preferences or for information about other programs where the applicant has applied or interviewed. Although applicants may volunteer such information, it is a violation of the Agreement if program staff requests that information. 

Senior resident here. I've been involved in interviews for several years now. I was wondering why applicants continue to get more misinformed/delusional and overall seemingly ridiculous with their opinions and impressions.

I had to come look at this website and after 2 minutes reading over this crap it all makes a little more sense....

Advice: listen to your mentors, gather first hand information (e.g. Sub-I), stop feeding each other the total crap that gets regurgitated  (on websites and otherwise)

Anyone else have days where the sky is pretty close to literally falling? You're firing in multiple emergent EVDs between which you have about 5-10 minutes to explain to a family that their young previously healthy loved one who was exercising for fun is now a vegetable and best case scenario might overbreathe the vent and flinch to noxious if everything goes well. 

Before you can even process the immense sadness and heaviness of that situation the fucking PACU is hammer paging you to change some outpatient procedures orders in a completely arbitrary way because it's somehow slightly, but not functionally, incorrect. 

While you're trying to put that in you get a consult for cord compression with a dude who woke up this morning and can't move his legs and is pissing and shitting himself for the past 3 hours.

While on your way down to the ED you get another call that a 80 yo male on aspirin, plavix and eliquis fell and now has a huge acute SDH requring Stat OR but will probably die anyway because grandma obviously must have angered the all mighty God. 


Not to mention the 500 other bullshit consults that are essentially NTD call me never please but the medicine attending is demanding a formal consult just to have neurosurgery "on board". 

Then you get phonecalls from attendings about pts you've never heard of needing to be preoped with clearence from 7 different services by tomorrow for a first start and it's 4pm

But now one of your EVDs has clotted off and you need go flush it but it won't fucking drain because the dude has b/l hematomas instead of ventricles so you eventually decide you need to soft pass a new drain but it's 9pm and you haven't eaten and you're fucking starving. 

Sometimes I feel like I'm just numb, I see some of the most depressing fucked up shit in the world while I drop bombshells on families all day. 

But I never have a minute to even process. I walk out of the hospital with a 1000 yard stare just to repeat it all again. It almost doesn't feel real sometimes. 

Am I alone?

    Fellowship opportunity for senior Neurosurgical residents (enfolded) or post-graduate neurosurgeons. Training can be focused in Neurosurgical Oncology, Cerebrovascular Surgery, and Skull Base Surgery. Fellows will actively participate in surgeries and research - over 30 active clinical trials. All training at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City - a high volume center positioned in the Upper East Side. Competitive salary and benefits available. Email: jboockvar@northwell.edu or dlanger@northwell.edu with your CV to apply. Position is for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Let's hear it!

Personally:

1. Barrow


2. Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, Pitt, UCSF, UVA

3. Baylor, Brigham, Columbia, Cornell, Duke,  Emory, Florida, Indiana, Jefferson, Johns Hopkins, NYU, OHSU, MGH, Miami, Michigan, Northwestern, Penn, Stanford, UT Southwestern, Utah, UC Irvine, UCLA,  U Wash, Vanderbilt, Tufts, Utah, USC, Washington St. Louis, Wisconsin, 


4. Carolinas, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Iowa, Mayo Jacksonville, Maryland, Minnesota, Mount Sinai, Penn State, Rochester, Rush, UNC, VCU, Yale, NIH, 

5. Albany, Buffalo, George Washington, Henry Ford, Hofstra, entucky, LSU, MUSC, Rutgers, Tenessee, UCSD, UI Chicago, USF, Vermont, UT Houston, Wake Forest


6. Alabama, Allegheny, Beth Israel, Brown, Einstein, Geisinger, Mississippi, Houston Methodist, New Mexico, Nebraska, NYMC Westchester, Oklahoma, St. Louis, SUNY Upstate, UI Peoria, Wayne State, West Virignia, Temple, U Chicago,

6. Tulane, Medical College of Wisconsin, LSU Shreveport, Scott and White, UT Galveston, Louisville, Arizona, Missouri, Cincinnati, Medical College of Georgia, Puerto Rico

Hi , i'm a neurosurgery resident in India , my residency ends in August 2018 and i'm looking to subspecialise in cerebrovascular/ endo vascular and skull base .

The problem is that there doesnt seem to be too much information on how to go aboout getting a fellowship as a foreign trained resident . can some one help clear in the blanks . Most of the sites i have visited usually mention a licencing requirement . I am aware that i have to go through the entire USMLE process but beyond that im completely lost .  Any help would be greatly appreciated

Do any programs have strong ties to neurosurgical departments/opportunities in latin america?

Is SLU a good/bad program? What's tHe 411?

What are a few countries where neurosurgery research is really ground breaking? And in what subspecialties? Would be cool to go to a country like Switzerland and work with some great minds.