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Honest question: why hasn't Paul Wallner been replaced by literally anyone else? It seems like he's been in this position for ten years longer than the other associate executive directors.

He graduated PCOM in 1968. Assuming he went straight through undergrad to med school, graduating at 25, he was likely born in ~1943.

Nearly 80 years old, and still running things. It's wild to think someone who graduated medical school before PCR was invented is determining what radiation oncology residents are tested on in 2022...
 
GapCalc said:
Honest question: why hasn't Paul Wallner been replaced by literally anyone else? It seems like he's been in this position for ten years longer than the other associate executive directors.

He graduated PCOM in 1968. Assuming he went straight through undergrad to med school, graduating at 25, he was likely born in ~1943.

Nearly 80 years old, and still running things. It's wild to think someone who graduated medical school before PCR was invented is determining what radiation oncology residents are tested on in 2022...
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Well first off if you ask Wallner about PCR he’ll say he knows all about it and what an incredible technology it is. Then if you probe him on details he’ll switch the subject to art or low quality residents. Paul has an unusual gift for obsequiousness towards all the exact right people who matter and precise lethal targeting of any perceived or real enemies.
 
Fun fact: PCOM has their yearbooks online (and for those who are thinking, "don't you have more important things to do?" the answer is no, it's a slow clinic day...)

Behold, Young Wallner (who I assume is pictured top photo, far right):
WeeWallner.jpg
 


Do we have difficulty with and/or not see the horizon? Or do we need to see *beyond* the horizon. Figures of speech can be riskier for a rad onc than irradiating near the optic chiasm.
 
GapCalc said:
Honest question: why hasn't Paul Wallner been replaced by literally anyone else? It seems like he's been in this position for ten years longer than the other associate executive directors.

He graduated PCOM in 1968. Assuming he went straight through undergrad to med school, graduating at 25, he was likely born in ~1943.

Nearly 80 years old, and still running things. It's wild to think someone who graduated medical school before PCR was invented is determining what radiation oncology residents are tested on in 2022...
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Honestly some of these nut jobs who have been out 10-15 years that get off on trials would be any better.

Pick the poison.

Learning mantle field or quoting the Chinese hypofrac toxicity data or unplanned analysis of obscure prostate papers.
 
TheWallnerus said:


Do we have difficulty with and/or not see the horizon? Or do we need to see *beyond* the horizon. Figures of speech can be riskier for a rad onc than irradiating near the optic chiasm.
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Well, we are radiation oncologists. The scalpel oncologists have been even less innovative wrt their modality during that time period.
 
Ray D. Ayshun said:
Well, we are radiation oncologists. The scalpel oncologists have been even less innovative wrt their modality during that time period.
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If by less innovative you mean not coming up with new ways to do less and lighten their own pockets, then yeah hasn’t been much surgical innovation since laparoscopy or if your being generous “robotic” surgery. But honestly it’s worked out for them. Surgery in onc has been relatively steady. Plus they dominate a lot of tumor boards which also helps.
 
RealSimulD said:
I know the news cycle moves super fast … but I still can’t believe a program is expanding in this era. Must have some real clackers, like graze the ground size.
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I dont think people realize how bad this dept is. They do not even have 6 faculty.

www.nyp.org

Faculty - Radiation Oncology Residency Program | NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital

Learn about the staff of the Radiation Oncology Residency Program at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
www.nyp.org www.nyp.org

Go inside the department it is one of the dingiest places ever. Exposed rusty pipes and hanging wires. It has no place educating residents. The fact that ACGME approved this tells us all we have to know that there is ANY hope to ever fix this. This only is a nod to the other places looking to expand and start programs.

Both NYP programs should be shut down.
 
thecarbonionangle said:
I dont think people realize how bad this dept is. They do not even have 6 faculty.

www.nyp.org

Faculty - Radiation Oncology Residency Program | NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital

Learn about the staff of the Radiation Oncology Residency Program at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
www.nyp.org www.nyp.org

Go inside the department it is one of the dingiest places ever. Exposed rusty pipes and hanging wires. It has no place educating residents. The fact that ACGME approved this tells us all we have to know that there is ANY hope to ever fix this. This only is a nod to the other places looking to expand and start programs.

Both NYP programs should be shut down.
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Drs. Hani Ashamalla and Bahaa Mokhtar should be ashamed of their department and ashamed of themselves for the selfish, destructive role they are playing in our specialty today.

There is no justification for any program expanding, let alone one as terrible as theirs. For shame.
 
OTN said:
Drs. Hani Ashamalla and Bahaa Mokhtar should be ashamed of their department and ashamed of themselves for the selfish, destructive role they are playing in our specialty today.

There is no justification for any program expanding, let alone one as terrible as theirs. For shame.
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Wait didn’t he take his son or something into the Dept?
 
OTN said:
Drs. Hani Ashamalla and Bahaa Mokhtar should be ashamed of their department and ashamed of themselves for the selfish, destructive role they are playing in our specialty today.

There is no justification for any program expanding, let alone one as terrible as theirs. For shame.
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This placed used to be only egyptian FMGs with an emetitus chairman ( Raffla) who was literally 80+ . One of the oddest places. Ashamalla graduated his son conducting sham interviews of people who wasted thousands to interview in the days when you were happy you matched ANYWHERE. A former attending graduated daughter who is at Penn state trying to open up a program.

NYP programs are all about grift folks!
 
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thecarbonionangle said:
This placed used to be pnly egyptian FMGs. One of the oddest places. Ashamalla graduated his son conducting sham interviews of people who wasted thousands to interview. A former attending graduated daughter. Him and Mokhtar are still there with some new fresh blood.
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Ahh yes the Egyptian connection…plenty of programs in the NYC area seem to have a similar dynamic at work.
 
RadsWFA1900 said:
If by less innovative you mean not coming up with new ways to do less and lighten their own pockets, then yeah hasn’t been much surgical innovation since laparoscopy or if your being generous “robotic” surgery. But honestly it’s worked out for them. Surgery in onc has been relatively steady. Plus they dominate a lot of tumor boards which also helps.
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Point taken, but. We have a modality. Perhaps the most specific name of all specialties that involve an intervention. We shouldn't be surprised if this hasn't changed much being as we're kinda hamstrung. The fractionation issues, etc, are separate discussions. The tweet was harping on developing technologies that allow us to better deliver our modality. It's an unfair comparison with med onc advancements that gets made as if there's much in the molecular realm that will tremendously impact rt in the same manner as imrt and sbrt.
 
thecarbonionangle said:
I dont think people realize how bad this dept is. They do not even have 6 faculty.

www.nyp.org

Faculty - Radiation Oncology Residency Program | NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital

Learn about the staff of the Radiation Oncology Residency Program at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
www.nyp.org www.nyp.org

Go inside the department it is one of the dingiest places ever. Exposed rusty pipes and hanging wires. It has no place educating residents. The fact that ACGME approved this tells us all we have to know that there is ANY hope to ever fix this. This only is a nod to the other places looking to expand and start programs.

Both NYP programs should be shut down.
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Look at the CVs of the 2 younger assistant profs. This is the problem. Stellar,... could have done anything.
 
thecarbonionangle said:
I dont think people realize how bad this dept is. They do not even have 6 faculty.

www.nyp.org

Faculty - Radiation Oncology Residency Program | NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital

Learn about the staff of the Radiation Oncology Residency Program at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
www.nyp.org www.nyp.org

Go inside the department it is one of the dingiest places ever. Exposed rusty pipes and hanging wires. It has no place educating residents. The fact that ACGME approved this tells us all we have to know that there is ANY hope to ever fix this. This only is a nod to the other places looking to expand and start programs.

Both NYP programs should be shut down.
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That's the problem with the whole ACGME RRC model. If you can fill out the paper work correctly and meet their bare bones minimum requirements for a program that's all that needs to be done for expansion. There are no guard rails on the system. Its designed to allow for maximum expansion of the resident work force.
 
I didn't realize that Brooklyn Methodist is now part of the NY Presbyterian system (since 2016). Crazy that the mother ship program has its residency program shut down while the Methodist branch is still going strong!
 
fiji128 said:
I didn't realize that Brooklyn Methodist is now part of the NY Presbyterian system (since 2016). Crazy that the mother ship program has its residency program shut down while the Methodist branch is still going strong!
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I do wonder. Younger faculty all with joint appts. Do the residents rotate? Is this a de facto perpetuation of the Cornell program? A lot more clout in that program to make things happen that shouldn't happen
 
For anyone who needs a refresher on this absolute hellpit

forums.studentdoctor.net

NY Methodist ranking their children to match

I heard the chairman of NY Methodist radiation oncology ranked his son to match. I also heard that the daughter of another attending is a resident there. If this is the case the ACGME and the DIO at NY Methodist should be notified of this funny business.
forums.studentdoctor.net forums.studentdoctor.net
 
DoctwoB said:
Publishing seems the most ripe for disruption given the explosion in online pre-prints during the pandemic. It isn’t a big stretch to imagine a platform like that where people volunteer to peer review and it becomes the definitive journal platform. Impact could be determined either by reviewer ratings of quality or based on citations/views, so academic institutions would have their metrics. It could also offer services for a nominal fee; like formatting.
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You just described Cureus to a T. I know it’s seen as a dumpster bin for case reports that other journals won’t publish, but I’ve heard the platform itself is far more pleasant than the traditional publishers’.
 
Krukenberg said:
You just described Cureus to a T. I know it’s seen as a dumpster bin for case reports that other journals won’t publish, but I’ve heard the platform itself is far more pleasant than the traditional publishers’.
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Cureus is John Adler’s vision, he is CEO .. I’ll say it again, this is a neurosurgeon that believes in radiation more than most of us do
 
Columbia expansion is the bigger annoyance to me.

NY Methodist is a pure hellpit.

Columbia trades on their Ivy League name, Lisa Kachnic, minions like Leah Katz and their PD who posted here to wage a misinformation campaign so widespread and foul that it makes Joe Rogan blush

I urge President Biden to shoot for the moon and SHUT COLUMBIA DOWN
 
thecarbonionangle said:
99 percentile in ABRO boards. This guy is a big f****** deal like proton Biden says
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I don't normally type in caps lock but I don't know what else to do here:

WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THIS? THIS ENTIRE LITTLE PARAGRAPH MAKES NO SENSE. I RECOGNIZE THE WORDS, BUT NOT THE ORDER THEY APPEAR IN.

99th percentile in ABRO boards??????

Teacher of the year "by AARO for several years"??????

WHAT

THESE AREN'T REAL ORGANIZATIONS
 
elementaryschooleconomics said:
99th percentile in ABRO boards??????
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I actually didn't interpret it that way.

As a pop culture references aside, in the great movie 'There Will Be Blood,' there is this nebulous character of Paul Dano's in which he simultaneously plays Paul and Eli Sunday. Two brothers... twins, evidently... and the viewer is left throughout the movie (with various references to Paul and Eli) as to which is which. Are they the same person? Is there really a Paul Sunday? It's confusing and alluring at the same time. A bit of a masterstroke by Paul Thomas Anderson. (Note that Daniel Day-Lewis plays "Daniel" Plainview. Paul Dano plays "Paul" Sunday.)

And a similar a masterstroke by Dr. Bahaa Mokhtar? If you can't beat 'em, keep 'em confused. I think Dr. Mokhtar meant he's in the 99th percentile of all doctors in the American Board of Radiation Oncology. "He has been a member of the American Board of Radiation Oncology (99th percentile) since 1998." No one takes a board exam EVERY SINGLE YEAR. So he must be saying he's 99th percentile among all people in the board, which is a 99th percentile board among all the boards in medicine, since 1998: 99th percentile in looks, 99th percentile in smarts, 99th percentile in eye color, 99th percentile in virility, 99th percentile in odor of his farts. This guy would intimidate Harrison Bergeron!
 
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TheWallnerus said:
I actually didn't interpret it that way.

As a pop culture references aside, in the great movie 'There Will Be Blood,' there is this nebulous character of Paul Dano's in which he simultaneously plays Paul and Eli Sunday. Two brothers... twins, evidently... and the viewer is left throughout the movie (with various references to Paul and Eli) as to which is which. Are they the same person? Is there really a Paul? It's confusing and alluring at the same time. A bit of a masterstroke by Paul Thomas Anderson.

And a similar a masterstroke by Dr. Bahaa Mokhtar? If you can't beat 'em, keep 'em confused. I think Dr. Mokhtar meant he's in the 99th percentile of all doctors in the American Board of Radiation Oncology. "He has been a member of the American Board of Radiation Oncology (99th percentile) since 1998." No one takes a board exam EVERY SINGLE YEAR. So he must be saying he's 99th percentile among all people in the board, which is a 99th percentile board among all the boards in medicine, since 1998: 99th percentile in looks, 99th percentile in smarts, 99th percentile in eye color, 99th percentile in virility, 99th percentile in odor of his farts. This guy would intimidate Harrison Bergeron!
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Mokhtar drinks your milkshake
 
TheWallnerus said:
I actually didn't interpret it that way.

As a pop culture references aside, in the great movie 'There Will Be Blood,' there is this nebulous character of Paul Dano's in which he simultaneously plays Paul and Eli Sunday. Two brothers... twins, evidently... and the viewer is left throughout the movie (with various references to Paul and Eli) as to which is which. Are they the same person? Is there really a Paul Sunday? It's confusing and alluring at the same time. A bit of a masterstroke by Paul Thomas Anderson. (Note that Daniel Day-Lewis plays "Daniel" Plainview. Paul Dano plays "Paul" Sunday.)

And a similar a masterstroke by Dr. Bahaa Mokhtar? If you can't beat 'em, keep 'em confused. I think Dr. Mokhtar meant he's in the 99th percentile of all doctors in the American Board of Radiation Oncology. "He has been a member of the American Board of Radiation Oncology (99th percentile) since 1998." No one takes a board exam EVERY SINGLE YEAR. So he must be saying he's 99th percentile among all people in the board, which is a 99th percentile board among all the boards in medicine, since 1998: 99th percentile in looks, 99th percentile in smarts, 99th percentile in eye color, 99th percentile in virility, 99th percentile in odor of his farts. This guy would intimidate Harrison Bergeron!
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This post reads exactly like Mokhtar's CV.

Are you...are you Bahaa Mokhtar?
 
The amount of clowns in power in this field is enough to fatfire a few elephants and tigers to open up more space in the circus. NYMP is already positioning themselves for a fantastic soap, no experience required, pulse negotiable. Super healthy shills are also part of the clown-show. I will cheer you on in the first row.
 
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Hmmm maybe Med students SHOULD join Columbia

After all…. Kachnic will be sure to pass all her own residents on the boards

She’s a premiere grifter in the field. One of the best.
 
jondunn said:
Hmmm maybe Med students SHOULD join Columbia

After all…. Kachnic will be sure to pass all her own residents on the boards

She’s a premiere grifter in the field. One of the best.
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jondunn said:
Hmmm maybe Med students SHOULD join Columbia

After all…. Kachnic will be sure to pass all her own residents on the boards

She’s a premiere grifter in the field. One of the best.
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Possibly, but she did blame the failures on inferior residents from small programs like Columbia (that may not have years of recalls.)
 
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What's so hard to understand?

He has a fabricated ranking from a make believe board and, several times he won a nonexistent award from a similarly nonexistent organization.

It's this kind of honesty and attention to detail that tells you you're in for a hell of a ride in residency. Buckle up poor soul.
 
I wonder and hopefully someone with insight can comment, if the grift is basically a backdoor reopening of Cornell program which was shut down, yet NYM have cornell affiliation still so if they expand that program they can also be pimped out to second hellpit, the shut down Cornell NYP site. There is always a grift/ruse in these bottomless hellpit of doom places. Who will double cover and write notes so people can do “research”??!!
 
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thecarbonionangle said:
Who will double cover and write notes so people can do “research”??!!
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People often ask how I do such high quality research...

It's because of my 99th percentile ABRO scores and AARO teaching awards along with my hoardes of residents.
 
thecarbonionangle said:
I wonder and hopefully someone with insight can comment, if the grift is basically a backdoor reopening of Cornell program which was shut down, yet NYM have cornell affiliation still so if they expand that program they can also be pimped out to second hellpit, the shut down Cornell NYP site. There is always a grift/ruse in these bottomless hellpit of doom places. Who will double cover and write notes so people can do “research”??!!
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That's because Cornell had inferior radiation, Cornell a-holes!!!

Anybody who gets involved in any of this deserves what comes of it. Sadly, there is basically only one type of person who is going to end up in something like this and it is the same type of person that fills the handful of nuclear medicine spots that literally have no viable path to gainful employment.
 
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