Training and Mentoring the Next Generation: Insights from the Field

Training the Next Generation

Background: In most states, mental illness costs are an increasing share of Medicaid expenditures. Specialized depression care managers (CM) have consistently demonstrated improvements in patient outcomes relative to usual primary care (UC), but are costly and may not be fully utilized in smaller practices. A generalist care manager (GCM) could manage multiple chronic conditions and be more acc...

Mentoring the next generation of academic child neurologists.

As health care advances over the next decades, it is important for the specialty of Child Neurology to remain at the forefront of investigations related to the understanding of disease processes that affect the nervous system of infants, children, and adolescents and to the development of improved evidencebased treatment options. Key to this process is the dissemination of new knowledge not jus...

Training the Next Generation of Neurosurgeons in Developing Countries – Mission Possible

One of the main concerns in different countries is training young neurosurgeons to treat patients. Each country is dealing with this issue with a certain strategy considering its goals. Training physicians is far different from many other fields, as it cannot be accomplished in the library or by reading books. This fact becomes even more notable when it comes to the neurosurgery which requires ...

Training and mentoring in urology: the 'LAP' generation.

Surgical training in Guyana: the next generation.

The pioneering surgical training partnership between the Canadian Association of General Surgeons (CAGS) and the University of Guyana has successfully graduated 14 surgeons since 2006. The association has recruited 29 surgeons who have made 75 teaching visits to Guyana, and CAGS involvement has been critical to providing local credibility to the program, organizing the curriculum structure and ...