FELLOW’S CORNER Shouri Lahiri, MD, neurocritical Xuemei Cai, MD, neurocritical care care fellow at New York Presbyterian fellow at MGH/ BWH Harvard Medical Columbia and Cornell Medical Center School “Although it is difficult to compare to prior “I started looking for a job my first year years, my overall impression of the job of fellowship because my spouse is in market is that it is still relatively good. the medical field and we were essentially There were openings at major academic looking for a job in the same city. I asked institutions including big cities such as the faculty at my program for help in New York, Boston, and Los Angeles and, of identifying contact people in different course, many private practice positions. I cities. I looked at both academic programs came across job openings from my (met with chairs and ICU directors) program director, other faculty members, and also private practice programs. I and the NCS website. I think it is essential utilized the NCS website as well as a to decide what type of position one wants and to begin to physician recruiting firm (Rosman, who I interviewed on the communicate professional and personal needs even prior to phone with and decided they were an additional resource worth physically interviewing somewhere. This will help focus your considering). While location was probably the single most attention and time on the positions that are best suited to your important factor for me, I was also interested in clinical service needs. It is very different from finding a training position where details: how big the ICU was, who worked in the day-to-day there are generally fewer variables that one needs to consider patient care of the ICU, as well as how much research time there partly because most aspects of the position are non-negotiable. I would be and opportunities for mentorship and formal clinical found it helpful to discuss aspects of contract negotiation with research training (masters in clinical science, MPH, etc). In the mentors and highly recommend this.” end, I chose an academic position with a two-year clinical research training fellowship through industry. My advice is be flexible and be honest with yourself on what is important to you.” What are Our Priorities for Training Neurocritical Care Physicians? By Saef Izzy, MD Please complete this anonymous five-minute education survey: https://redcap.partners.org/redcap/surveys/?s=zKEbBipchF. Participants will be entered into an Apple Watch raffle. Instructions for the raffle will be provided upon survey completion. Your participation is highly valued.Please kindly distribute the survey link to your nursing and physician colleagues (staff, fellows, and residents). Thank you, Abigail S. Cohen (MGH) Dr. Stephen Figueroa (UTSW) Dr. Christiana Hall (UTSW) Dr. Saef Izzy (MGH/BWH) Dr. Monisha Kumar (Penn) Dr. David McDonagh (UTSW) Dr. Eric Rosenthal (MGH) Dr. Lori Shutter (UPMC) Dr. Paul Vespa (UCLA) 15
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