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What is the best operative neurosugical book ??

2012-05-10T16:08:42-08:00

What is the best operative neurosugical book ??
i want your opinions please ..... thanks

Publishing in Journal of Neurosurgery, is it good?

2012-04-23T13:24:59-08:00

Hi. I am a third year medical student working on a “revisited” review article. The PI wanna submit it to a branch ( JNS: Spine, JNS: Pediatrics...etc) of Journal of Neurosurgery (JNS). I found that the impact factors for these branches are too low!! On the other hand, JNS is the AANS journal!

Anybody going to the AANS in Miami and want to split lodging?

2012-02-07T21:46:00-08:00

Any medical students going to the AANS in April? It’s free to attend as a student, so all it will cost is lodging and airfare. PM me if your interested.

Neurosurgery Clinical Research

2012-04-16T07:35:02-08:00

I’m interested in doing functional research on Parkinson’s; however I don’t have any clinical experience. I found a neurosurgeon at my institution who does Parkinson’s clinical research on the effectiveness of various clinical/surgical procedures, but my only knowledge of the brain is limited to the pathology and anatomy textbooks, with little to no knowledge of neurosurgery. I’m assuming the neurosurgeon doesn’t even have a lab since he’s busy directing a certain clinical center at the hospital. Should I just stick to basic science research? How does one (who isn’t yet a clinician) contribute to functional (or any other, e.g. oncology or trauma) neurosurgery research when most of which is analyzing diagnostic/surgical procedures? Thanks.

Who you know…

2011-12-21T07:38:26-08:00

In terms of attaining great letter of recommendations, who you know is a major factor. However it is difficult to be acquainted with the bigger names in the field without knowing where to look. How can I search who are the more prominent surgeons in the field in a given city? Google doesn’t help very much with this.

Thanks.

matched into prelim surgery :(

2012-04-05T19:44:00-08:00

Didn’t match into neurosurg this year, going to do a prelim surg year and then reapply - any advice?
I want to do well and get rec letters, but the application process is so early, how do I get these letters?
Also, I won’t be doing any away rotations this year.... how do programs get to know me?
Is there anyone here who has gone through this process??

Back on topic

2012-04-08T20:08:25-08:00

Enough of this applicant/program chatter. Can we get back to the real discussions here like shittiest consults and ER bashing?

PGY-2 openings for July 2012 start?

2012-04-03T08:48:39-08:00

I am a PGY-1 categorical NS resident in good standing looking for a categorical NS PGY-2 position at another program starting July 2012.

If anyone has heard of any openings, please let me know.

2011 MGMA Data

2012-03-28T11:02:47-08:00

Does anyone have the latest MGMA data available as this can be very usual in negotiations!

Private endovascular

2012-03-15T15:06:07-08:00

Does anyone have any thoughts/advice on whether it’s possible to go into a private practice as an endovascular neurosurgeon? From the info I’ve gathered it seems that most (attendings) feel that you need to be at a big academic practice to have such a practice. I’d hate to have to give up a sub-specialty that I really enjoy to stay in an academic setting if I don’t want all the rest that comes with it.