2/27/2023 0 Comments Matthew banks neurologySpecial Interest or what you enjoy to do outside of the hospital: Exploring the outdoors, finding new music and enjoying live music, spending time with my two golden doodles, Fiona and Gracie, and my wife, Hannah. All of the residents (and attendings) are very laid back so whenever we get a bit of downtime, it’s nice to be with a group of good people you can grab a beer with after work. A good work-life balance isn’t all about being healthy though. This includes weekly workouts, healthy meals, and occasional lectures on well-being and diet. In fact, we have a fitness program called La Sierra that is dedicated to the wellness of our residents. Getting into neurosurgery you know that it’s something you have to sacrifice, but it’s nice to be in a program that at least supports your well-being. Lastly, but equally as important, the program boasts a good work-life balance. With a couple of rough device concepts, it was an added bonus to know that there was an outlet for those thoughts or any other ideas I’d have during residency. Examples of devices include unique percutaneous screws created to prevent overlap and a device placed on the skin used to stereotactically evacuate clots. This is a program that serves to bring device concepts to fruition, all the way from design and manufacturing to patenting and selling. A unique research component to our program is the Zucker Institute for Applied Neurosciences. Ramin Eskandari, has an extensive research background so I was excited at the thought of working with them. The cerebrovascular attendings publish at least once a month and one of our pediatric neurosurgeons, Dr. In terms of research, I’m interested in cerebrovascular and pediatric neurosurgery so I wanted to go somewhere that would expose me to exciting research in those fields. Our attendings have trained everywhere from UCSF and NYU to institutions in Japan (under Sugita) so a wide variety of surgical techniques are seen. As a medical student, I got to work with the residents so I knew they all had good surgical exposure with a reasonable level of autonomy. The program has a good mix of surgical training, research opportunities, and work-life balance. Why you chose MUSC: MUSC offers a truly well rounded training experience. Medical School: Medical University of South CarolinaĬlinical Interest: Pediatric Neurosurgery, hydrocephalus, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy surgery
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