So, You Want to be a Cardiac Surgeon?: Training Paradigms

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Education, Science

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🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Interested in cardiac surgery? The training paradigm for cardiac surgery has changed significantly over the past decade and we know may students often struggle when deciding what pathway is best for them. For this episode, we assembled a robust team of attendings, fellows, and residents to discuss their journey as well as some of the research that has been conducted about these different pathways to help guide students navigating this decision.

Hosts:
- Jessica Millar, MD- PGY-5 General Surgery Resident, University of Michigan, @Jess_Millar15

Guests:
- Nick Teman, MD- Assistant Professor of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Virginia, @nickteman

- Jolian Dahl, MD, MSc- Integrated Thoracic Surgery Resident (PGY-6), University of Virginia, @JolianDahl

- Lyndsey Wessels, MD- Traditional Thoracic Surgery Resident (CT-1), University of Virginia, @LyndseyWessels

Articles Referenced:

- Pathways to Certification: https://www.abts.org/ABTS/CertificationWebPages/Pathways%20to%20Certification.aspx

- Narahari AK, Patel PD, Chandrabhatla AS, Wolverton J, Lantieri MA, Sarkar A, Mehaffey JH, Wagner CM, Ailawadi G, Pagani FD, Likosky DS. A Nationwide Evaluation of Cardiothoracic Resident Research Productivity. Ann Thorac Surg. 2024 Feb;117(2):449-455. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2023.08.011. Epub 2023 Aug 26. PMID: 37640148; PMCID: PMC10842395
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37640148/

- Bougioukas L, Heiser A, Berg A, Polomsky M, Rokkas C, Hirashima F. Integrated cardiothoracic surgery match: Trends among applicants compared with other surgical subspecialties. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2023 Sep;166(3):904-914. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2021.11.112. Epub 2022 Mar 22. PMID: 35461707.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35461707/

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0:00.0	Behind the surgery podcast relevant and engaging content designed to help you dominate the Knife. My name is Jessica Malar, PG-5 general surgery resident at the University of Michigan, and one of the Behind the Knife Surgery Education Fellows.
0:30.0	I'm very excited for today's episode where we'll be discussing the various training pathways to becoming a cardiothorastic surgeon as part of our ongoing cardiac surgery series.
0:39.0	Now there have been a lot of changes to the training paradigm over the past decade and I know many students,
0:44.8	myself included when I was a med student, have struggled when it comes to deciding what pathway is best for
0:49.8	them. That's why we've assembled a robust team of attend fellows and residents to discuss their journey, as well as some of the research that's been conducted about these different pathways.
0:59.0	I'll go ahead and let them introduce themselves.
1:01.0	Hi everybody, I'm Lindsay Wessel's.
1:03.4	I'm a traditional First-Year Fellow at the University of Virginia.
1:06.7	I have active duty Navy and after finishing my medical school at the Uniform Services
1:10.5	University went on to complete my general surgery residency
1:13.7	at Naval Medical Center, San Diego,
1:15.6	which brought me to University of Virginia now.
1:18.9	And hi, everyone.
1:19.8	I'm Jolene Dahl.
1:20.8	I'm the Integrative Cretiothoracic surgery.
1:23.6	Senior fellow at University of Virginia,
1:25.6	so that means I'm in my eighth year since we do two years of research
1:28.4	between our second and third.
1:29.7	And so I trained at Emory and there's where I decided that I wanted to go into heart surgery.
1:34.3	And I'm Nick Teeman, I'm a cardiac surgeon at the University of Virginia.
1:38.0	I'm also one of the associate program directors of the traditional and
1:41.9	integrated residency programs.
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