SAGES 2009 Meeting Information: Presentations
SAGES 2009 Annual Meeting
Surgical Spring Week Presentations
April 22-24, 2009
Phoenix Convention Center
Phoenix, Arizona
∇ Equipping the Surgeon – Training the Jedi
My Training is Over, Now What?
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Chair: Karen Horvath, M.D.; Co-Chair: Simon Bergman, M.D.
The purpose of this session is to provide residents and fellows with an overview of important decisions they will face following completion of their training. These issues impact career development and have both professional and personal implications. The topics discussed are meant to provide the participants with the tools and questions necessary to spark a successful and rewarding academic or private practice career.
Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, the participants will be able to:
- Develop strategies to better orient their clinical and/or academic career goals
- Appreciate how to conduct a successful job search, interview, and contract negotiation in the private and academic milieus
- Understand and overcome the hurdles to the introduction of endoscopy in their new practice
- Query their own resource base more precisely with newly formulated career development questions and concerns
