Yes! Tumor Boards Have a Place at All Major Oncology Meetings
Multidisciplinary tumor boards have become an essential component for the care of patients with cancer. Many countries require all hospitals that take care of patients with cancer hold tumor board meetings. A large number of countries even require tumor board decisions in order to have surgeries or medications approved. Comprehensive cancer centers, standalone cancer...
Don’t Learn the Wrong Lessons from Failure
Past experience can offer highly valuable insight into future outcomes — but only when leveraged effectively. In this piece, the authors discuss three common traps that leaders fall into when attempting to learn from failures: They invest in strategies that don’t help, they overlook strategies that would help, and they don’t notice when seemingly...
Helping Investigators Build and Sustain Their Research Careers
If you work in a research or research-adjacent setting, do you remember the first grant you ever received? Do you remember the project it funded? Do you remember how it felt when someone was willing to invest in the value and potential of your idea? I can picture the heads nodding. It’s a pivotal,...
Our Uncertain Future Is in Capable Hands
If you work in a research or research-adjacent setting, do you remember the first grant you ever received? Do you remember the project it funded? Do you remember how it felt when someone was willing to invest in the value and potential of your idea? I can picture the heads nodding. It’s a pivotal,...
My Journey Through the Hematology / Oncology Fellowship Match
By Michael LaPelusa, MDIntroduction
The 2022-2023 National Resident Matching Program Medicine and Pediatric Specialties Match was the largest ever. A total of 9,387 applicants rode the tortuous rollercoaster known as the Fellowship Match. A lucky 7,648 fellowship applicants matched to a fellowship position. This figure included 3,892 graduates of MD medical schools, 1,093 graduates of...
