Surviving Neurosurgery

Nitin Agarwal, M.D.Washington University School of MedicineDepartment of Neurological SurgerySt. Louis, MOUSAVamsi Reddy, MDUT Southwestern Medical CenterDepartment of Neurological SurgeryDallas, TXUSA

• The Black Box – a Privilege and a Calling.- The Two A’s of Neurosurgery: A Subintern’s Experience.- Into the Zone of Action: Neurosurgical Sub-internship.- The Right Stuff : What Program Directors Look for in Residency Applicants.- SO WE BEAT ON, BOATS AGAINST THE CURRENT: OVERCOMING CHALLENGES TO MATCH.- Behind the Curtain: Residency Interviews.- Living in Two Worlds: Dual Degree.- Matching plus one.- Lessons for New Interns.- Chief Year Story: Day 2,946.- Hail Mary: Surviving Call as a Junior Resident.- Preparing for the written boards.- A Knot in the Heart: Junior Resident Experience.- Stoking the Fire: Consult Story.- The Maserati: Choosing the Ideal Mentor.- To Washington and Back: My Thoughts on Healthcare Activism.- A Bridge, but No River: The Fellow-ish Experience.- Becoming the Theologian and the Priest : Advice for Residents.- A Stroke of Change: Changes in my Practice.- My Greatest Mentor.- Advancing Academically in Neurosurgery: Harnessing the Sweet Spot While Minimizing the Sweat Spot.- Life Beyond Neurosurgery.- A New Job: A Steep Learning Curve.- Negotiating Your Way to a Fulfilling Neurosurgery Career: Clinical Contract.- Negotiating a Research Contract.- Surviving Medicaid, Medicare, Private Payors, Billing and Collections in 2020.- How to Choose a Team .- Advice to recent residency graduates.- Neurosurgical Leadership: Altruism and Aequanimitas.- Directing a Neurosurgery Residency Training Program.- Lessons from Leadership from a Society President.- AANS/CNS Washington Committee: Ensuring Neurosurgery Survival.- Team Management – Lessons from Establishing a Neurointerventional Service.- PArtner in Neurological Surgery.- Cost-Cutting Without Quality-Cutting.- Neurosurgery Across the Globe.- Lessons Learned: Life in Neurosurgery.- Global Neurosurgery: how best to be involved.- Preparing for the Oral Board Exam.- Challenges of Coding and Reimbursement.- Sponsor for Trainees.- The Neuroendovascular Surgery Odyssey.- My Worst Complication.- Judgment, Teams and Hands:  Beyond Technical Skills in the Operating Room.- Supporting Future Generations of Neurosurgeons: Passing the torch.- The “tail” of the intraneural ganglion cyst: My most fascinating case.- Morbidity and Mortality.- Preparing for the OR: From the Lab to the OR.- Intraoperative Teamwork: Two-Surgeon Model.- Gaining Competence in Neurological Surgery: Is it enough? .- A Critical Portion of the Case Occurs in the Clinic.- Why I chose to be a neurosurgeon.- A Subspecialty at a Glance: Endovascular Neurosurgery.- No Longer Gentleman Hands:  Choosing Spine Surgery.- The Modern-Day Skull Base Surgeon.- Choosing Neurosurgical-Oncology.- From Cajal to Talairach: A journey to Epilepsy Surgery.- Choosing Pediatric neurosurgery.- A Focus on Stereotactic Radiosurgery in Neurosurgery.- Bench and Bedside: The Path to Becoming a Physician-Scientist.- Private practice.- Choosing a Subspecialty Which is Both Practical and Useful.- Neurotrauma: Endlessly Rewarding.- Rewiring the Peripheral Nervous System.- Research Year Story.- The MD/PhD and the Neurosurgeon/Neuroscientist.- How to Give a Great Presentation.- The Job of Editor-in-Chief of a Neurosurgery Journal.- Neurosurgery and the Pursuit of Fundamental Neuroscience.- "How to Get Research Funding (AKA, How to Successfully Bang Your Head Against the Wall)".- A Podcast for Neurosurgeons: Conception, Creation, Continuation.- AANS Neurosurgeon: Creativity outside of the operating room.- Getting started in research: Testimonial from a “Late Bloomer”.-- The “Keys” to starting your research laboratory.- Technophilia and Neurosurgery.- How to Conduct Meaningful Research: How Not To Reinvent Just Another Wheel.- Work Life Balance: Preserving soul and sanity.- Having Children During Residency.- The @Graffeo 10 Commandments for #NSGY Twitter.- Public Service in Neurosurgery.- Diversity in Neurosurgery.- Military Neurosurgery.- Thriving in a Two Surgeon Household.- Surviving a Malpractice Lawsuit.- Engagement and Leadership in Organized Neurosurgery.- BEING A WOMAN IN A MALE-DOMINATED FIELD.- In the Eyes of Chiari .- Mindfulness, and Coping with the Inevitable Tragedies of Neurosurgery.- How to Build a Successful Academic Innovation Program and Why Innovation Should be a Core Neurosurgical Competency.- Art of Neurosurgery: The Commissure.- Mission Trips: How Outreach Changed My Life.- The Family is an Extension of the Patient.- A Personal Journey.- Switching Programs.- Applying to Neurosurgery: DO’s and DO Nots .- Changing Neurosurgery Programs.- The only way to survive falling out of an airplane is to go limp.- Flipping Burgers Due to Career Burnout.- So You Didn’t Match.- Overcoming Frustration: Grind My Gears, Butter My Bread.- Chasing the American Dream.