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Hey all!
Current 4th year med student interviewing over the next couple months. I've got a special interest in Head and Neck, and I would like to go to a program that has good TORS training. My goal with this might be to bring TORS to a multi provider private practice in my hometown, which currently doesn't do it due to physicians not having robotic surgery available in their time in residency.
I know TORS is standard at most academic centers, but the actual resident training can be a mixed bag -- as in you might just be there to change to instrumentation but get minimal actual training performing surgeries while the attending and fellow do it.
Is it better to get TORS training at a smaller program (2-3 residents) without H&N fellow around? Or is better to go to a huge program with a large H&N volume and a fellow or two? Or is best to just aim on getting that training in your fellowship? (I'm still undecided on fellowship).
Current 4th year med student interviewing over the next couple months. I've got a special interest in Head and Neck, and I would like to go to a program that has good TORS training. My goal with this might be to bring TORS to a multi provider private practice in my hometown, which currently doesn't do it due to physicians not having robotic surgery available in their time in residency.
I know TORS is standard at most academic centers, but the actual resident training can be a mixed bag -- as in you might just be there to change to instrumentation but get minimal actual training performing surgeries while the attending and fellow do it.
Is it better to get TORS training at a smaller program (2-3 residents) without H&N fellow around? Or is better to go to a huge program with a large H&N volume and a fellow or two? Or is best to just aim on getting that training in your fellowship? (I'm still undecided on fellowship).
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