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Contract Negotiation for Early Career Neurosurgeons
Target Audience, Overview and Course Description
Overview: This course bundle provides early career neurosurgeons with the knowledge to negotiate their first employment contract and successfully handle themselves throughout the interview process. The bundle will include videos, podcast episodes, and an interview etiquette infographic.  

The video component contains eight separate recordings, featuring expert speakers from a variety of practice models and geographic locations. The podcast episode complements the video with personal contract and interview experiences discussed by Dr. Ian Dunn, MD, FAANS, and Dr. Russell Lonser, MD, FAANS. The infographic offers a snapshot of interview etiquette, such as attire and communication.

Course Description: Contract negotiation is an integral step toward beginning your career as a neurosurgeon. There is an expected level of professionalism in neurosurgery from the way you present yourself – including how you dress and how you speak. Most early career neurosurgeons do not receive formal training in this area.

This course is designed to prepare you to negotiate your first — or second — employment contract and successfully handle yourself during the interview process, including what to wear, what questions to ask and not to ask and how to make a lasting, positive impression. Remember, you are not only interviewing with the doctor across the table, but with the entire health system. Build a relationship with both.

By the end of this course, you will be able to identify standard and nonstandard components in an employment contract, recognize workplace and health system factors that influence employment contracts and understand the role of the negotiation process in building a working relationship.

Target Audience: residents and early career neurosurgeons

 

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the educational activity, participants should be able to:
• Identify standard and nonstandard components in an employment contract
• Recognize workplace and health system factors that influence employment contracts
• Describe the role of the negotiation process in building the working relationship
Videos and Faculty
  1. Course Overview
    Linda M. Liau, MD, PhD, MBA

    Chair, Department of Neurosurgery at UCLA

  2. Standard and Negotiable Contract Components
    Aviva Abosch, MD, PhD

Professor, Nancy A. Keegan and Donald R. Voelte, Jr. Chair

Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center

  1. Nonnegotiable and Nonstandard Contract Components
    Dan Sciubba, MD, MBA

    Chair and Professor, Neurosurgery at Northwell/Hofstra

  2. Benchmarking Your Value
    Joseph S. Cheng, MD, MS

    Frank H. Mayfield Professor and Chair, Department of Neurosurgery
    University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

  3. Working in an Academic Medical Center
    E. Antonio Chiocca, MD, PhD

Harvey W. Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery and Chair, Department of Neurosurgery

Harvard Medical School

  1. Working in a Private Practice Model
    Jean-Pierre Mobasser, MD

    President, Goodman Campbell Brain & Spine

  2. Understanding Malpractice Coverage
    Joseph S. Cheng, MD, MS

    Frank H. Mayfield Professor and Chair, Department of Neurosurgery
    University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
     
  3. Building the Working Relationship

Jean-Pierre Mobasser, MD
President, Goodman Campbell Brain & Spine

Summary
Availability: On-Demand
Expires on Oct 05, 2026
Cost: Member: $199.00
Non-Member: $400.00
Resident: $199.00
Credit Offered:
1.5 CME Credits
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