Articles by Topic - Career Development
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- Article: Resident Restructure: Attendings adjust to new work-hour rules
- Richard Quinn
- Published: Nov 01, 2010
- The new duty hour regulation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) that limits first-year residents to 16-hour shifts has drawn a conflicted chorus of reactions from attendings, who have only seven months before the stipulation goes into effect.
- Article: New Quality Indicator: MOC promotes better care, ABOto director says
- Thomas R. Collins
- Published: Oct 08, 2010
- With greater scrutiny of doctors and easier access to information about doctors’ education, the American Board of Otolaryngology’s Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program is more important than ever, said Robert Miller, MD, executive director of the American Board of Otolaryngology (ABOto).
- Career Development: Generation Gap: Combating "fogeyphobia" in the workplace
- Gina Shaw
- Published: Sep 03, 2010
- In an address to the 2009 Combined Otolaryngological Spring Meetings in Las Vegas, neurosurgeon Harry Van Loveren, MD, chair of the department of neurosurgery at the University of South Florida, coined the term “fogeyphobia” to describe a tendency among older doctors to become reluctant to speak out against new surgical tools and techniques, out of fear of being viewed as old-fashioned.
- Article: Prime Time for Pediatric Otolaryngology: ASPO seeks subcertification
- Thomas R. Collins
- Published: Aug 09, 2010
- With pediatric otolaryngology continuing to evolve, the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology (ASPO) is exploring subcertification in the field, saying it is specialized enough that it deserves recognition. The society has approached the American Board of Otolaryngology (ABOto) about the possibility and is working on defining the knowledge base that would be required for a physician to become subcertified as a pediatric otolaryngologist.
- Article: Demystifying the ACGME: Your guide to understanding the residency accreditation body
- Noel Jabbour, MD, and Brian Burkey, MD
- Published: Jul 02, 2010
- ACGME RRC—this litany of letters means little to most otolaryngologists. However, whether you are a private practitioner or an academician, a resident in training or a program director, you should have a basic understanding of the work done by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Residency Review Committee (ACGME RRC).
- Career Development: Adverse Event Aftermath: Departments are creating programs to help physicians cope
- Gina Shaw
- Published: Jul 02, 2010
- When Rahul Shah, MD, then a pediatric otolaryngologist at Children’s Hospital in Boston, and several colleagues first undertook a survey of otolaryngologists’ reactions to adverse events in 2004, they provided a blank form for respondents to write about what had happened. In the more than 200 responses they received, Dr. Shah and his colleagues read an outpouring of emotion.
- Article: Upholding the Legacy: Trio president urges members to make lasting contributions
- Thomas R. Collins
- Published: Jun 09, 2010
- Triological Society members should constantly be assessing their contributions to their profession and working to create meaningful legacies in line with the group’s traditions, said Society President Frank E. Lucente, MD, in his presidential address at the Annual Meeting of the society, part of the Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meetings held here April 28-May 2.
- Viewpoints: Mission Possible: Humanitarian work allows otolaryngologists to enact change
- Drew Horlbeck, MD
- Published: Apr 01, 2010
- Performing international surgical outreach missions to help the world’s most disadvantaged patients overcome the disability imposed by disease is an extremely rewarding experience. Missions are challenging, varying in their length, level of working and living conditions and the surgery performed. Despite the rigors of mission work, there has not been a mission where members of the medical team did not find the experience to be life changing.
- Article: The Female Question: Should more be done to increase the ranks of female otolaryngologists?
- Gretchen Henkel
- Published: Mar 01, 2010
- Diana C. Ponsky, MD, assistant professor of otolaryngology-facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio, went to medical school wanting to be a pediatrician. She happened upon otolaryngology “by accident, by scrubbing into a very fascinating cancer case. I was hooked,” she now recalls.
- Viewpoints: The Otolaryngology Gender Gap: How do we make it disappear?
- Linda Brodsky, MD
- Published: Feb 01, 2010
- It’s a fact: An increasing number of American women are entering medicine. In the U.S. today, half of matriculating medical students, and 28 percent of all practicing physicians, are women.
