Simulation Training—a Necessity for Future Surgeons

Career planning for future surgeons

The competitiveness of surgical specialities is no secret. Indeed, it is well known that plastic surgery and ophthalmology make up one of the most competitive areas of surgery and medicine alike [1,2]. Furthermore, any career that may even remotely resemble normality in working hours (9–5) will naturally attract more applicants [1]. However, a clear direction of what to do in order to boost one...

Necessity of Future Information in Admission Control

We study the necessity of predictive information in a class of queueing admission control problems, where a system manager is allowed to divert incoming jobs up to a fixed rate, in order to minimize the queueing delay experienced by the admitted jobs. Spencer et al. (2014) show that the system’s delay performance can be significantly improved by having access to future information in the form o...

Necessity of Future Information for Effective Admission Control

We study the necessity of predictive information in a class of queueing admission control problems, where a system manager is allowed to divert incoming jobs up to a fixed rate, in order to minimize the queueing delay experienced by the admitted jobs. Spencer et al. (2014) show that the system’s delay performance can be significantly improved by having access to future information in the form o...

The future of surgery and surgeons.

The Future Medical Science and Colorectal Surgeons

Future medical technology breakthroughs will build from the incredible progress made in computers, biotechnology, and nanotechnology and from the information learned from the human genome. With such technology and information, computer-aided diagnoses, organ replacement, gene therapy, personalized drugs, and even age reversal will become possible. True 3-dimensional system technology will enabl...