[HSF] Duplicity

[Ramaiah, Chandrashekar]

Ed,
When I was in residency I attended AATS meeting (Toronto?). There the
same group of people who were trying to put new requirements to train CT
surgeons of the future and recommended 4-5 years of surgery + minimum 3
years to do Cardiac, or Thoracic and 3-4 years to be pediatric cardiac
surgeons. I asked them why is it that they feel I need extra 2-3 years
to learn what they learnt in 2 or so years. No answer to that question
but you see why this may be one of the reasons we have very few
candidates for CT programs.

On Tuesday in STS general session there was another talk by Atul Grover,
representing AAMC (Unfortunately I missed the first half and may be one
of you attended and will update us). Their conservative estimation is
that there will be a significant shortage of Cardiothoracic Surgeons. To
fulfill the needs of the ageing population we should be training about
250+ graduates a year and this he said is a very conservative estimate
and they assumed that there will not be any more CABG's done in this
country.

This is exactly what happened in Anesthesiology field about 10 years ago
when they said there were too many Anesthesiologists and CRNA's will
fill the void... we know what followed subsequently. Today a graduating
Anesthesiology resident is getting paid (in most instances) twice as
much as a CT surgeon (with up to 8 weeks of vacation and <40 hours of
work week) because of supply and demand.
This is what I tell my residents interested in CT or currently in CT
program that their services are very much needed and in a few years they
will be in demand.

Chand


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Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 3:39 PM
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Subject: [HSF] Duplicity

Just listened to a talk at STS regarding recertification.  We will all
be taking a standard test in addition to SESATS for recertification
UNLESS you were first certified before 1976, in which case you will be
subject to this exercize first in the year 2018.  No explanation for
this was given, therefore, I am to conclude that this was a way for the
rule givers to excuse themselves from this additional burden of
examination.  To quote Mel Brooks: "Its good to be the king."

Ed Bender, MD
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