To account for additional factors outside gross income, the investigators ran the numbers using a second analysis, a net present value calculation, however, and came up with roughly the same salary gap to contend with. Lopez of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., said. “The more financially irresponsible you make it to become an academic surgeon, the more we put at risk our current mode of training,” Dr. This growing financial liability coupled with declining physician reimbursement could rapidly shift physician practices and thus threaten the fiscal viability of certain surgical fields or academic surgical careers.
Joseph Martin Lopez said at the annual scientific assembly of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma ( EAST).Įvery year a new class of surgeons is faced with the question of academic practice or private practice, but they are also struggling with increasing student loan debt and longer training as more surgical residents elect to enter fellowship rather than general practice. “The concern that we have is that the academic surgeons are where the education of the future lies,” lead study author Dr.
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