A Surgeon's Path. What to Expect After a General Surgery Residency

Fellowship Applications.- Fellowship Interviews.- Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Fellowship.- Breast Surgical Oncology Fellowship.- Burn Fellowship.- Colon and Rectal Surgery Fellowship.- Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellowship.- Vascular Surgery Fellowship.- Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship.- Plastic Surgery Fellowship.- Transplant Fellowship.- Where to Look for a Job After Residency.- Job Applications.- Interviewing for your First Job.- Contract Negotiation.- Gender Inequality in Compensation in Medicine and Surgery.- Applying for Privileges and Licensure.- Moving.- Malpractice Pearls for the Young Surgeon.- Academic Medicine.- Hospital Employment.- Lessons Learned in Private Practice.- Partners.- Medical Economics.- Gifts.- Marketing.- Finding a Mentor.- Setting up your Office.- Building a Program.- Lawsuits.- Preparing for your First Day on the Job.- Dealing with your Clinic.- Navigating Electronic Medical Records.- First Call with your First Emergent Case as an Attending.- How to Avoid Disasters in the Operating Room.- When to Ask for Help.- Finding Balance of Letting Residents Operate While Managing Patient Safety.- Choosing the Right Staff.- How to Be Smart with Case Selection.- Building your Practice.- When your Patient Dies.- Innovation.- Future Technology in Healthcare.- Interacting with Residents.- Professionalism.- Research.- Continuing Medical Education/Maintenance of Certification.- Board Exams.- Becoming a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and Osteopathic Surgeons.- Learning New Procedures.- Robotic Surgery.- Military Surgery.- Five-year and Ten-year Plans.- Changing Practices.- Leadership Development.- Work-Life Balance.- Stress Management.- Burnout.- Diet and the Surgeon.- When is it a Good Time to have a Baby?.- Social Media and your Professional Presence Online.- Mindfulness.- Divorce.- Life as a Surgeon from a Spouse's Perspective.

This text provides a comprehensive review of what comes after the completion of a general surgery residency, and will serve as a valuable resource for those surgeons, residents, and medical students interested in a career in general surgery. This book reviews several areas of fellowships and how to navigate through the application process, provide a guide for finding a job and negotiating through your first position, and also discusses other difficult topics such as how to deal with malpractice lawsuits. All chapters are written by experts who have gone through the various processes.

Kahyun Yoon-Flannery, DO MPH
Breast Oncology Fellow
Department of Surgery
Division of Endocrine and Oncologic Surgery
University of Pennsylvania

Carla S. Fisher, MD FACS
Director, Breast Fellowship Program
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Division of Endocrine and Oncologic Surgery
University of Pennsylvania

Marc A. Neff, MD FACS
Director, Center for Surgical Weight Loss
Kennedy Health System