How to Pick a Good Surgeon

How to Pick a Graduate Advisor

In this NeuroView, I provide a guide for young scientists on how to select a graduate advisor or postdoctoral advisor. Good mentorship is not only pivotal for career success, but it is pivotal for driving innovation and for the health of our universities. Universities need to do much more to teach faculty how to mentor and to ensure mentoring quality. I propose an M-index to measure mentoring q...

Good surgeon: A search for meaning.

The art and philosophy of surgery are not as often discussed as scientific discoveries and technological advances in the modern era of surgery. Although these are difficult to teach and pass on to the next generations of surgeons they are no less important for training good surgeons and maintaining their high standards. The authors of this review and opinion article tried to define what being a...

Why and How Is Compassion Necessary to Provide Good Healthcare? Comments From an Academic Physician; Comment on “Why and How Is Compassion Necessary to Provide Good Quality Healthcare?”

This is a short commentary to the editorial issued by Marianna Fotaki, entitled: “Why and how is compassion necessary to provide good quality healthcare.” It introduces the necessity of a more cognitive approach to explore further the determinants of behavior towards compassionate care. It raises questions about the importance of training towards a more patient-care and values driven healthcare...

How to GRASP GOOD

The e orts of the past decade to provide database designers and users with more powerful tools for both modeling the considered application domain and manipulating this model, has resulted in a variety of declarative data languages of usually high complexity. In view of the implementation and optimization of such languages, it is often bene cial to use a second language as an intermediate, mach...

A Short Introduction to Clinical Photography for the Plastic Surgeon