Spine surgery training: Is it time to consider categorical spine surgery residency?

TY - JOUR

T1 - Spine surgery training

T2 - Is it time to consider categorical spine surgery residency?

AU - Daniels, Alan H.

AU - Ames, Christopher P.

AU - Garfin, Steven R.

AU - Shaffrey, Christopher I.

AU - Riew, K. Daniel

AU - Smith, Justin S.

AU - Anderson, Paul A.

AU - Hart, Robert A.

N1 - Funding Information: Author disclosures: AHD: Trips/Travel: Stryker Spine (B, Paid directly to institution), DePuy/Synthes (A, Paid directly to institution). CPA: Royalties: Aesculap (C), Biomet Spine (E); Stock Ownership: Doctors Research Group (100 shares), Baxano Surgical (1,000 shares), Visualase (2,000 shares); Consulting: Medtronic (B), Stryker (B), DePuy (C). SRG: Royalties: DePuy Spine (I); Stock Ownership: Cross Tree (25,000 Shares), Interventional Spine (20,000 shares), Pioneer Surgical (10,000 shares, Consultant/speaker honoraria), Spinal Kinetics (10,000 shares), Spine Medica (25,000 shares), Surgifile (50,000 Shares), Cytonics Corporation (2,500 Shares), SI Bone, Inc. (200,000 shares); Consulting: Applied Spine Technology (B, Paid directly to institution/employer), Magnifi Group (B, Paid directly to institution/employer), Cytonics (None), SI Bone, Inc. (A), Globus Medical (A), Benvenue Medical (C), NuVasive (D, Paid directly to institution/employer), Spinal Kinetics (None); Speaking/Teaching Arrangements: DePuy (Financial, reimbursement for travel and time), Biomet (Financial, reimbursement for travel and time); Board of Directors: Spine Arthroplasty Society (Financial, hotel reimbursement); Scientific Advisory Board: NuVasive (C, Paid directly to institution/employer), Spinal Kinetics (None), Spine Medica (None), Vertiflex (None), SI Bone, Inc. (None), Benvenue Medical, Inc. (B); Research Support - Staff/Materials: DePuy, Inc. (D, Paid directly to institution/employer), EBI (D, Paid directly to institution/employer), Medtronics (E, Paid directly to institution/employer), NuVasive (E, Paid directly to institution/employer); Fellowship Support: Synthes Spine (E), DePuy (E), Medtronics (E), Biomet (D). CIS: Royalties: Medtronic (F, Paid directly to institution), Biomet (D, Paid directly to institution); Consulting: Biomet (C), Globus (C), Medtronic (D), Nuvasive (C), Stryker (B); Grants: National Institutes of Health (D, Paid directly to institution), Department of Defense (F, Paid directly to institution), AO (E, Paid directly to institution), Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation (E, Paid directly to institution), NACTN (F, Paid directly to institution); Fellowship Support: NREF (E, Paid directly to institution), AO (E, Paid directly to institution), University of Virginia (E, Paid directly to institution). KDR: Royalties: Biomet, Medtronic (G); Stock Ownership: Amedica; Benvenue; Expanding Orthopedics; Nexgen Spine; Spinal Kinetics; Spineology; Vertiflex; PSD (F); Speaking and/or Teaching Arrangements: AOSpine; New England; Royalties: Biomet (F), Osprey (C), Medtronic (G); Stock Ownership: Amedica (B), Benvenue (C), Expanding Orthopedics (B), Nexgen spine (B), Osprey (C), Paradigm Spine (B), Spinal Kinetics (C), Spineology (B), Vertiflex (B), PSD (B); Speaking and/or Teaching Arrangements: AOSpine (Honorarium), NASS (Honorarium); Trips/Travel: AOSpine (reimbursement only), NASS (reimbursement only), SRS (reimbursement only), Broadwater (reimbursement only), Selby Spine (reimbursement only); Board of Directors: CSRS (Past-President, 2012-2013, unpaid position), Global Spine Journal (Deputy Editor, unpaid position), AOSpine (Chair-elect & Research Chair, International Board, paid position), NASS (unpaid position); Grants: AOSpine (B, Paid directly to institution), Cerapedics (A, Paid directly to institution), Medtronic (C, Paid directly to institution for FDA-IDE study); Fellowship Support: AOSpine (Paid directly to institution). JSS: Consulting: Biomet (D), Cerapedics (B), Nuvasive (0), Medtronic (B); Speaking and/or Teaching Arrangements: Biomet (D), Globus (C), DePuy (C), Nuvasive (C); Grants: DePuy/ISSGF (D, Paid directly to institution); Fellowship Support: NREF (E, Paid directly to institution), AO (E, Paid directly to institution). PAA: Royalties: Styrker (D); Stock Ownership: SI Bone (<1%), Pioneer surgical (<1%), Titan Surgical (<1%), Expanding orthopedics (<1%), Spactec (<1%); Consulting: Stryker (E), Pioneer surgical (B), Aescualp (C). RAH: Grant: International Spine Study Group Foundation (C, Current/Active Grants), Medtronic (F); Royalties: SeaSpine (E), DePuy (B); Stock Ownership: SpineConnect (C); Honoraria: DePuy (C); Consultancy: DePuy (C), Globus (B), Medtronic (C); Speaking and/or Teaching Arrangements: DePuy (C); Board of Directors: CSRC Board, ISSLS, ISSG Executive Committee; Patent: US-2010-0268230-A1: Method and Apparatus for Dens Fracture Fixation (Pending, no sales to date).

PY - 2015/7/1

Y1 - 2015/7/1

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U2 - 10.1016/j.spinee.2014.08.452

DO - 10.1016/j.spinee.2014.08.452

M3 - Comment/debate

AN - SCOPUS:84937805606

VL - 15

SP - 1513

EP - 1518

JO - Spine Journal

JF - Spine Journal

SN - 1529-9430

IS - 7

ER -