{"id":78525,"date":"2022-08-30T10:25:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=78525"},"modified":"2022-09-01T08:18:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T13:18:27","slug":"residency-director-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/08\/30\/residency-director-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Residency director of the month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p><b><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">Name:<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\"> William Thorell, MD<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">Medical school attended:<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\"> UNMC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">Location of your residency\/fellowship training:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">Residency &#8211; UNMC<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">Fellowship &#8211; Cleveland Clinic Foundation&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">What residency\/fellowship program at UNMC are you serving as program director for?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">Neurosurgery<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">Number of trainees:<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\"> 14 (2 per year)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">How long have you been the program director?<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\"> 2020&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">What made you choose to become the program director?<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\"> Kind of always wanted the job. Kenneth Follett, MD, PhD, named me associate program director sometime in 2018.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">What challenges do you foresee in graduate medical education in the future?<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\"> Same challenges that exist now-figuring out the best methods to train the next generation of physicians\/surgeons while providing the highest level of patient care and advancing knowledge.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">What are the strengths of your training program?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">Dealing with the challenge above<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">Collegiality<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">Wide experience across all parts and types of neurosurgery<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">List some accomplishments that you are proud of:&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: black;\">Residents from our program provide high-level neurosurgical care for patients across the Midwest (Minnesota, Colorado, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas); we have residents in Maine and Pennsylvania.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">Medical students from UNMC frequently match into neurosurgical training programs (including our own) and then return to the Midwest to practice (a large credit goes to my friend and colleague Dan Surdell who manages medical student education for our department).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">Our residents are highly sought for post-graduate employment; they bring a high level of preparedness.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">Approximately a&nbsp; third&nbsp;of our residents have completed fellowships with very high evaluations from those programs which serves as great feedback for our program; many have returned to the Midwest to practice.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span 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