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The Professional Lifespan: From Residency to Retirement, An Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics
- 1st Edition, Volume 34-1 - November 14, 2023
- Editors: Stephen C. Yang, Jinny Ha
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 0 2 3 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 0 2 4 - 3
In this issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics, guest editors Drs. Stephen Yang and Jinny Ha bring their considerable expertise to the topic of The Professional Lifespan: From Residency… Read more
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics, guest editors Drs. Stephen Yang and Jinny Ha bring their considerable expertise to the topic of The Professional Lifespan: From Residency to Retirement.
Profession transitions in thoracic surgery are difficult at any point in one’s career, from fellowships and first jobs through mid-career moves and retirement. Every thoracic surgeon goes through these transitions, but needs guidance to do so effectively. This issue covers the entire career lifespan of a thoracic surgeon, plus important related topics such as finances, wellness, lifelong learning, and diversity.
Profession transitions in thoracic surgery are difficult at any point in one’s career, from fellowships and first jobs through mid-career moves and retirement. Every thoracic surgeon goes through these transitions, but needs guidance to do so effectively. This issue covers the entire career lifespan of a thoracic surgeon, plus important related topics such as finances, wellness, lifelong learning, and diversity.
- Contains 15 relevant, practice-oriented topics including the growing years: promoting yourself the first five years; navigating promotions in thoracic surgery; integrating advocacy into your practice; exit strategy: preparing for retirement; the mid-career crisis: moving on to the next job; and more.
- Provides in-depth information on the professional lifespan: from residency to retirement, offering actionable insights for a lifetime of clinical practice.
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Thoracic surgeons
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Foreword
- Preface
- Finding the Right Mentor
- Key points
- Introduction
- Mentorship in cardiothoracic surgery
- Thoracic Surgery Residents Association
- Thoracic Surgery Medical Students Association
- Other considerations in mentorship
- Selecting a mentor (and making the most out of mentor–mentee relationship)
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Advanced Fellowships After Training: Super or Not?
- Key points
- Background
- Emerging technologies
- Current training paradigms
- Logistics—how to find a super fellowship
- Why added training?
- Review of super fellowships by subspecialty
- Structural heart
- Minimally invasive coronary
- Minimally invasive valve
- Mechanical circulatory support/transplant
- Congenital surgery
- Thoracic minimally invasive fellowship
- Looking to the future
- What Is the “Right” First Job?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Summary
- Personal Finance Wellness for New Attendings
- Key points
- Financial management as a new attending
- Build a team for financial success
- Improve your financial literacy
- Get insured
- Loans and debt
- Planning for retirement
- Lifestyle and family
- Summary
- Declarations
- The Growing Years: Promoting Yourself in the First 5 Years
- Key points
- Introduction
- Clinical transitions
- Professional transitions
- Personal transitions
- Summary
- Becoming a Cardiothoracic Surgical Educator
- Key points
- Introduction
- The clinician-educator
- Defining the roles: teacher versus educator
- Scholarship
- Skill sets of an educator
- Clinician-educator academic tracks
- An effective surgical educator
- Education research
- Acquiring the skills, qualifications, and credentials
- Building a national reputation as an educator
- Documenting an educator’s work
- Evaluating the work of an educator
- Advancement and promotion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Navigating Promotion in Thoracic Surgery
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Funding
- Outside the Operating Room: Alternative Pathways for Doctors and Surgeons to Lead
- Key points
- Introduction
- Understanding failure
- Vantage point
- Critical questions to ask
- The why
- Required skills to lead outside of the operating room
- Impact
- The efficiency quality index
- Clinics care points
- Implementation of Well-Being for Cardiothoracic Surgeons
- Key points
- Well-being
- Burnout
- Making progress toward a goal
- Work that is commensurate with experience, interest, and mission
- Interconnectivity with team members and patients
- Social relatedness to the work that we do
- Safety
- Autonomy
- Wellness outside the workplace
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Integrating Advocacy into Your Practice
- Key points
- Classic patient-doctor relationship
- External influences on the patient-doctor relationship
- Past advocacy by thoracic surgery
- Advocacy for the individual surgeon
- The Mid-Career Crisis: Moving on to Your Next Job or Staying Comfortable
- Key points
- How we define “mid-career”
- Mid-career for academic and private practitioner cardiothoracic surgeons
- Mid-career crisis
- Transitioning to a new job: when
- Transitioning to a new job: knowing the “why”
- Transition to a new job and the importance of working with good people
- Strategic plans for your next job
- Personal reflection
- Summary
- Diversity in the Cardiothoracic Surgery Workforce: What I Can Do
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Surgical Citizenship: Engagement in Surgical Organizations
- Key points
- Introduction
- Learning about transitions
- Learning about partnerships
- The role of professional (or surgical) organizations
- The benefits of engagement in surgical organizations
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- The Exit Strategy: Preparing for Retirement
- Key points
- Introduction
- Financial planning
- Expenses
- Income: social security
- Income: personal savings
- Income: retirement plans
- Health benefits
- Transition to retirement programs for faculty in academic medical centers
- Establishing state residence
- Summary
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 34-1
- Published: November 14, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443130236
- eBook ISBN: 9780443130243
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Stephen C. Yang
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Surgery and Medical Oncology, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Chief of Thoracic Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MDJH
Jinny Ha
Affiliations and expertise
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine , Division of Thoracic Surgery