Overview
- Written by experts who have personally developed a clinical practice in their academic positions
- Covers the relationship between academic medicine and hospital administration and financers
- Addresses the unique relationship between hospitals and university medical schools
Part of the book series: Success in Academic Surgery (SIAS)
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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The “Nuts and Bolts” of a University-Based Practice
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Balancing Academic Development with Clinical Practice
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Finances and Health System Collaboration
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About this book
Building a Clinical Practice aims to highlight the importance of developing a successful clinical practice in an academic setting and to help guide readers through the challenges associated with that process.
This book is relevant to senior surgical trainees and young surgical faculty who are facing the challenges associated with developing a clinical practice.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Adam W. Beck, MD, FACS is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery and the Division Director of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His clinical practice focuses on open and endovascular treatment of complex conditions of the aorta, including thoracoabdominal aneurysms. He received his medical degree from the University of Alabama and did his General Surgery training at the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center, which was followed by a Vascular Surgery fellowship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH. He also completed a mini-fellowship in branched/fenestrated aortic repair at the Groningen University Medical Center in Groningen, The Netherlands. He has built two busy vascular practices with a focus on aortic surgery, having practiced at the University of Florida for seven years before moving to UAB as the Division Director in 2016.
Tracy S. Wang, MD, MPH, FACS, is currently Professor in the Department of Surgery and Vice-Chair of Strategic and Professional Development. Her clinical practice is focused on the surgical endocrine disease of the thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal glands. She is Chief of the Section of Endocrine Surgery (Division of Surgical Oncology) at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Program Leader for the Endocrine Cancer program at the Froedtert Hospital/Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center. She is the Program Director of the MCW Endocrine Surgery Fellowship. She received her undergraduate degree from Brown University and received her medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. She completed her surgical residency at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York and a fellowship in Endocrine Surgery at the Yale University School of Medicine. She holds a Masters degree in Public Health from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Building a Clinical Practice
Editors: Tracy S. Wang, Adam W. Beck
Series Title: Success in Academic Surgery
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29271-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29270-6Published: 02 January 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-29271-3Published: 01 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2194-7481
Series E-ISSN: 2194-749X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 254
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Surgery, Medical Education