Can we discuss this?  UC Irvine charimanship has been a revolving door for the last 10 years.  The Davis chairman got canned for infecting GBM patients.  UCSD abandoned ship for greener (ivy) pastures.  Leaving UCSF, who is also in a quiet chairman search and lost their cerebrovascular service to a private practice.  What is going on in California?

(01-11-2017, 06:02 PM)Rome is falling Wrote: Can we discuss this?  UC Irvine charimanship has been a revolving door for the last 10 years.  The Davis chairman got canned for infecting GBM patients.  UCSD abandoned ship for greener (ivy) pastures.  Leaving UCSF, who is also in a quiet chairman search and lost their cerebrovascular service to a private practice.  What is going on in California?

Can anyone who has done a Sub-I at the Mayo Clinic comment on their experience?

How do you guys keep your case logs?  I've seen a variety of ways.  Obviously, the ACGME log is necessary.  How do you decide which level to put (assistant, senior resident, lead resident)?  For a case that is booked as one case but has multiple parts (e.g. back/front spine, xlif + perc screws, crani for aneurysm w/ intraop angio) do you log that as one?  Do you keep anything else as a log?  I've seen moleskin notebooks with patient stickers or info.  I've seen binders of op notes.  One guy had a searchable database with pdfs.

I'll get this started with an interesting one.  It's been a while, so I don't recall the specifics but here's the gist:

Patient was on the medicine service and had a pulmonary empyema.  IR was consulted and placed a pigtail catheter.  We get called days later for paraparesis.  The patient can't get an MRI, but ct-myelogram reveals the pigtail is somehow entering through a throracic foramen and traverses the spinal cord.

Anyone have the latest gossip?  Who's going where?  Hirings? Firings? Scandals?   Dish!

Any advice for an incoming MS4 on applying for Sub-Is, what you could do differently etc?

Anyone who did a SubI care to share their experience? Thanks!

My medical school does not have a neurosurgery residency program, though there is another residency program in the same city at a different medical school. I will have 3-4 months for sub-i's/away rotations -- which would you recommend of the following options, and why?

1. Do a neurosurgery rotation at my home institution first, even though there is not an associated residency program. (I've been told this would help me prepare for my away rotations and do well on sub-i's, but I'm hesitant to use up an away rotation slot when I know a rotation at my home institution would not boost my rank list/chances of matching there.)
2. Do my first away rotation at the university hospital/med school in my city with a residency program, and emphasize that I consider them my "home residency program" since my medical school does not have an associated program. (That way they wouldn't expect me to already have done a rotation at my home institution? This is a program that I am interested in attending for residency, and so I don't want to ruin my chances by being unprepared for my sub-i there.)
3. Do a neuroradiology rotation at my medical school first, then follow with option #2. (I thought this might increase my preparedness for neurosurgery sub-i's since I would refine my anatomical and radiographic knowledge.)

Any advice would be much appreciated!

Can anyone leave a blurb about some of the programs they have interviewed at?  Like the format, feel, facilities etc?  I'm getting my app for next year together and want to know a little about places I haven't heard about.  Thanks

Several away electives do not operate through VSAS and only require a CV+chosen dates. Since no transcript is requested, would it be appropriate to include medical school coursework and grades in the CV? Or is this overboard?