Change the forum setup

[TheThroat]

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Just a thought about changing the current forum setup:

Take ortho, neurosurg, and uro and more them from the main forum list (too long as it is) and put them where the plastics sub-forum is. Also, add oto, vascular, thoracic and any other surgical subspecialty to the "sub-forum" list. Currently, you have some subspecialties, most glaringly uro in the main list with 20-90 posts, while anyone wanting to look at other subspecialty posts like vascular/thoracic/etc having to file through the 2000+ posts in the monster surgery heading.

 

[Winged Scapula]

Just a thought about changing the current forum setup:

Take ortho, neurosurg, and uro and more them from the main forum list (too long as it is) and put them where the plastics sub-forum is. Also, add oto, vascular, thoracic and any other surgical subspecialty to the "sub-forum" list. Currently, you have some subspecialties, most glaringly uro in the main list with 20-90 posts, while anyone wanting to look at other subspecialty posts like vascular/thoracic/etc having to file through the 2000+ posts in the monster surgery heading.

Whie this may be a good idea for the future as SDN expands, right now we've made a conscious decision not to include separate forums for surgical fellowships (as this would then of course require forums for IM subspecialties, etc.) like CT, Vascular, etc.

Urology, as an example, tends to go through cycles of interest, with more or less posts. When it was particuarly busy last year, we had a Moderator available, so it was a given its own forum, as was Ortho. the fact of the matter is that we don't get enough questions about fellowships like Vascular, thoracic, etc. to warrant their own forums at this time. If someone is interested in those topics, a forum search would be the easiest way to find relevant threads.

Of course, as we grow and the interest in fellowships does as well, we may simply add this to the existing features. We prefer not to have a lot of forums without Moderators or forums without a substantial interest.

However, I am amenable to including an OTO forum as I think its a field of interest to a certain subset of SDN users and it could be included under the Surgical subspecialties with PRS until it generates enough interest and/or we find a good Moderator for the forum. I think there may be some outcry from the semantics police who will cry that OTO is not a surgical subspecialty and deserves its own forum like "the other guys". This obviously would be predicated on the agreement of other SDN Mods and Admins.

Hope this explains things. The system ain't perfect but we appreciate any input we can get from users to make things easier and more functional.

 

[TheThroat]

I understand what you are saying re: CT and vascular. I was just including them in the list because I didn't want anyone left out. My main point is that Oto doesn't have its own forum. I understand that if there is no moderator its hard to have a viable forum. I am perfectly fine with having Oto under the surgical subspecialty heading, although its really its own entity.

 

[Winged Scapula]

I understand what you are saying re: CT and vascular. I was just including them in the list because I didn't want anyone left out. My main point is that Oto doesn't have its own forum. I understand that if there is no moderator its hard to have a viable forum. I am perfectly fine with having Oto under the surgical subspecialty heading, although its really its own entity.

Yes, I suspected that you were mostly interested in OTO (don't worry about leaving others out). I agree there is enough interest in the field that it warrants some sort of way to delineate it from the other threads.

I'll suggest it to the Mods.