Top residency programs in 2024 (operative)

[Guest]

Dang, do they only open and close? That's disappointing. Consequently, do their graduates struggle to find jobs? How do you find jobs if you can't operate?

[Guest]

No neurosurgery graduate struggles to find jobs, it’s a solid job market out there, particularly for spine surgeons. Subspecialized cranial guys will have a somewhat harder time. But that being said, most hospitals are NOT looking for basic science nerds and lab geeks. They don’t contribute much, their operative productivity is low, and since most revenue is driven by patient care (which lab guys don’t provide much of), they are a needless expense, rather than providing anything of value. Unfortunately, despite what most researchers think of themselves, few labs actually produce anything of much value at all, and fewer still generate anything of monetary value (which is what hospitals care about)

[Guest]

Biggest cost driver for you at the hospital is OR time per case. If you’re not efficient, you’ll get a pay cut or have to leave.

[Guest]

So can you post number of programs on your rank list and ones you did not rank but interviewed at?

[Guest]

Congratulations to Loma Linda for no longer being on probation! Currently Rutgers is the only residency program that remains on probation in the United States. Adjust your rank lists accordingly.

[Guest]

Not being on probation is a pretty low bar to cross. Not sure how much it should really affect rank lists. Maybe if they stop arguing that being religious means they don’t need to follow regulations.

[Guest]

What about for the program that is still on probation? Should people rank it and hope it closes?