E99 Neel Datta on Surgical Workforce Planning

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast

We were lucky to have Dr. Neel Datta on the podcast this week! Dr. Datta is a colorectal surgeon in Calgary. He did a Masters of Health Economics at the London School of Economics, and has used that expertise to model some of the issues around surgical workforce planning in Canada. We really dug into some of the issues around unemployment and underemployment of surgeons in Canada, and perhaps some solutions to that very real problem.

Links:

1. The current state of resident trauma training: Are we losing a generation? https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/61/3/153.long

2. Ahmer Karimuddin On The "Struggling" Trainee, CaRMS, & Resident Selection. https://soundcloud.com/cjs-podcast/e64-ahmer-karimuddin-on-the-struggling-trainee-carms-resident-selection

3. Shane DiNapoli On Physician Finances, Professional Corporations, And Financial Planning. https://soundcloud.com/cjs-podcast/e63-shane-dinapoli-on-physician-finances-professional-corporations-and-financial-planning

4. Hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery workforce in Canada. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4447518/

5. A novel approach for the accurate prediction of thoracic surgery workforce requirements in Canada. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24787697/

6. Calcutta Cricket Club! https://www.calcuttacricketclub.com/