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Vascular Residency Topics

This series of podcasts is a resource for vascular specialists and other health care professionals. The podcasts are available in two file formats - Windows Media  (WMV) and Quicktime video (MOV). 

To play the podcasts from this Web site, simply click on the links below (WMV or MOV). The MOV files are much larger and take longer to download; you may want to download the MOV files directly to your computer prior to playing. 

To download the files to your computer:

1. Right-click over the link and select "Save Target As"
2. Choose the file location on your computer to store the file
3. Double-click the file to view through your computer, or drag into your portable player's software (such as iTunes)

Options for Careers in Vascular Surgery

WMV | MOV
After training in vascular surgery, vascular surgeons can take care of a myriad of patient’s problems with a wide array of treatment plans. The best thing about practicing as a vascular surgeon is that the patients come back to see the same physician over a long period of time, a lifetime actually, with the need for the surgeon to monitor their lifestyle as well as the results of any interventions they perform.

Economics in Vascular Surgery: What Should I Expect?

WMV | MOV
Graduates of vascular surgery training programs can look forward to the most favorable job opportunity market available in years. It is estimated that nearly seven positions currently exist for each graduating trainee making vascular surgery one of the most competitive specialties around.

Negotiating Skills for Young Surgeons

WMV | MOV
Beginning any practice is difficult. During your fellowship, how to negotiate and establish a vascular surgery practice is rarely touched upon. Things you need to consider are issues related to base salary, incentive, and the requirements for acceptance into partnership. Additionally, one must inquire about call schedule, how patients are divided among the practice, how the vascular lab profits are apportioned, buy-in costs, and any differential in distribution of excess profit? Does the proposed salary include retirement investments and malpractice insurance?

Vascular Surgeon Lifestyles

WMV | MOV
A career in vascular surgery allows choices for achieving balance between personal life and work as a vascular surgeon. The choices made are important to be sustainable; and interests and needs may vary at different times in your life. For some individuals, family and personal interests are paramount. For others, home life fits around career. There are many different work settings: academic, Veterans Administration, private practice, hospital employee and HMO employee.  Although there is some common ground, each of these different work settings holds certain advantages and disadvantages.

Women in Vascular Surgery

WMV | MOV
As more women enter the surgical specialties, there needs to be a greater awareness of the benefits of selecting vascular surgery as a career choice as it can be rewarding both personally and professionally. 

Vascular Surgery Training

WMV | MOV
The majority of vascular surgeons feel the field is now different enough from traditional general surgery that independence is needed, in one form or another, from the American Board of Surgery. The proposal for full independence was not successful, but a compromise was reached the opened the way to a Primary Certificate in Vascular Surgery. Vascular surgeons no longer have to be trained in or certified as general surgeons and training programs with five years of core general and advanced vascular surgery training are being established.

Choosing a Vascular Surgery Fellowship

WMV | MOV
Choosing a fellowship is an exciting, albeit stressful time in a young surgeon’s career.  An applicant should look for a program that has an adequate volume and distribution of surgical and interventional procedures. That is, infra-renal aortic and thoracic stentgrafts, diagnostic and therapeutic peripheral interventions, open aortic reconstructions, infrainguinal bypass, and carotid-based procedures, including carotid stenting.  Each program will have a different distribution as well as an increased participation in either open or endovascular treatments. 

Structuring Your Practice:  How to Optimize Time and Revenue

WMV | MOV
During your fellowship, very little emphasis is placed on allocating physician effort in vascular surgery. Clinical time is divided between office evaluations, endovascular procedures, the operating room, interpreting vascular lab studies, and research endeavors. The needs of the practice, the needs of the community, and an objective evaluation of one’s own personal assets and limitations must be addressed initially.

Additional Topics
 

Vascular Specialty Topics | Vascular Residency Topics | Peripheral Arterial Disease | Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
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