The State of Neurocritical Care Fellowship Training and Attitudes toward Accreditation and Certification: A Survey of Neurocritical Care Fellowship Program Directors

The State of Neurocritical Care Fellowship Training and Attitudes toward Accreditation and Certification: A Survey of Neurocritical Care Fellowship Program Directors

Neurocritical care as a recognized and distinct subspecialty of critical care has grown remarkably since its inception in the 1980s. As of 2016, there were 61 fellowship training programs accredited by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties (UCNS) in the United States and more than 1,000 UCNS-certified neurointensivists from diverse medical backgrounds. In late 2015, the Program Accre...

Pediatric emergency medicine fellowship training: a survey of program directors.

Neurocritical Care Training for the Neurosurgery Resident

Introduction: Recent data has associated favorable outcomes in patients who were treated in a “semi-closed” intensive care unit and attended to by a devoted team of neurointensivists as opposed to the neurosurgeons. This has led many to question the need for dedicated critical care education in the neurosurgical residency training program. Our aim was to determine what current neurosurgery resi...

General surgery residency inadequately prepares trainees for fellowship: results of a survey of fellowship program directors.

OBJECTIVE To assess readiness of general surgery graduate trainees entering accredited surgical subspecialty fellowships in North America. METHODS A multidomain, global assessment survey designed by the Fellowship Council research committee was electronically sent to all subspecialty program directors. Respondents spanned minimally invasive surgery, bariatric, colorectal, hepatobiliary, and t...

Leadership Training in Endocrinology Fellowship? A Survey of Program Directors and Recent Graduates

Context There is growing recognition that more physician leaders are needed to navigate the next era of medicine. Objective To determine current opinions about leadership training in endocrinology fellowship programs. Design/Participants Twenty-seven-question survey addressing various aspects of leadership training to current nationwide fellowship program directors (PDs) and fellowship grad...