Recent content by Circ Arrest

I'm partial to the traditional route, mainly because I felt like my chief resident year helped me mature a lot as a doctor. That said, I have worked at places that have an I6 residency and I have many I6 residency trained partners who are all good. There are definite advantages to I6 training...

It depends on the institution. I'm a non-acgme super fellow, I get paid extra to make a more reasonable salary (I'd be the worst paid cardiac surgery attending in America but I make significant more than a traditional PGY 9), regardless it is a fraction of most attending salaries.

I use the DFV daylight. Its bright enough for cardiac

This is a good recent discussion by some of the folks at Methodist hospital about the current training paradigms.

The answer to this is and always will be to do the best you can do. Doing well on Step 1 is not going to hurt you regardless of what field you want to go into. Doing research is not going to hurt no matter what field you want to go into. Applying for scholarships through professional societies...

There are a lot of overlapping skill sets in cardiac surgery and vascular surgery and its very translatable. A blood vessel is a blood vessel. You sew a graft to the axillary artery the same way whether you are doing an ax-fem bypass or an axillary cannulation. Sewing a vascular anastomosis is...

Interesting. That would not have been my pick for a beautiful and mesmerizing aortic case, but each to their own.

Dude, here is the issue. And it’s an easy and clear one. You have an attitude problem. Period. You have mismanaged expectations. Period. You know what is more important than being competent, or smart, or talented, etc. etc. etc.? Being a team player. You know what that means? When you’re off...