Dr. Taffet, a practicing otolaryngologist at the Phoenix Sinus Center in Arizona, discusses how the art of skydiving has helped him relieve stress.
WIO General Assembly Highlights Triumphs, Challenges of Women Physicians
Dr. Montgomery Rice discussed topics ranging from mentorship to compensation equality to work-life balance for women physicians and scientists.
Stephanie Chen, MD, Makes Move from Professional Pianist to Surgeon
Chen’s first operating room experience reminded her of the rush she always felt performing on stage as a concert pianist and chamber musician.
Otolaryngologist Engages Creative Side with Stand Up
Editor’s note: This is the first installment of a new department highlighting ways members of the otolaryngology community spend their (often limited) spare time, the time spent “after 7 pm.” Here, we will spotlight our colleagues’ passions outside the practice of medicine, and get a closer look at the varied interests and talents our community […]
Work Overload: Sense of achievement key to combating professional burnout
Most microvascular and reconstructive free-flap head and neck surgeons experience at least moderate professional burnout, according to a study published in October 2010 in the Archives of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery.
A Prevalent Problem: Studies report sleep deprivation in colleagues, patients
Among the issues highlighted here last month at SLEEP 2011, the 25th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, was the effect of inadequate sleep on both the health of the individual and on society at large. Two studies presented at the meeting, for example, looked at the effects of inadequate sleep on health care providers and the risks posed to their health and the health of their patients. Another study put into context just how underreported inadequate sleep and sleep disorders are and elaborated on the challenge this poses to otolaryngologists and others who are on the frontlines managing these disorders.
Otolaryngologist Pioneers New Practice Model: Dr. Russell heralds hospitalist role as others ponder the concept’s staying power
On July 1, after five years in the department of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center, most recently as chief resident, Matthew Russell, MD, is joining the faculty there as an assistant professor. Normally, that career arc is not nationally noteworthy.
Resident Restructure: Attendings adjust to new work-hour rules
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.
Recruitment, Evaluation, Regionalization Among Novel Challenges to the Specialty
PHOENIX-The speciality of head and neck surgery has come a long way. But, along with huge advances in the types of treatments available and the technologies used, the profession is facing challenges-such as the recruitment of good candidates into the field and issues related to the regionalization and globalization of care.
