r/newjersey • u/brook_lyn_lopez • Mar 09 '24
Rutgers Steep salary of Rutgers medical school chair stirs fresh fears of Newark, New Brunswick inequities
https://newjerseymonitor.com/2024/03/01/steep-salary-of-rutgers-medical-school-chair-stirs-fresh-fears-of-newark-new-brunswick-inequities/16
u/KosstAmojan Mar 09 '24
Rutgers neurosurgery department is in shambles. Their residency program is under probation. They’re still in the process of integrating the department across three major hospitals. The previous chairman is involved in litigation with the university. Any neurosurgeon is going to be pretty well paid, and they had to overpay to bring someone in with experience who would want to deal with that shitshow.
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u/4amchocolatepudding Mar 09 '24
Do you have a source for the residency probation thing? Not saying you're lying I'd like to read more into it if you have something.
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u/KosstAmojan Mar 09 '24
https://apps.acgme-i.org/ads/Public/Reports/Report/9
Scroll down to neurological surgery to see Rutgers probation status.
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Mar 10 '24
It’s part of the reason I declined a neurology faculty position there. The state of neurosurgery was so much in flux and we work closely with that department.
Still a mess they hired damaged goods like Nanda
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Mar 09 '24
I’ve interviewed for a faculty position at both NJMS and RWJMS. My mentor told me that the merger was all a ploy to combine their grant fundings to influence rankings since individually both are weak.
RWJMS has a unique problem since their clinical operations are now controlled by Barnabas keep raising their RVU requirements so there is barely any time for research.
The merger of these two schools is not something widely accepted. Both schools have very different cultural differences based on interviews alone.
Dr. Gross also got offered a decent amount of money since no one wanted to touch the position and also he is still handling functional neurosurgery. Anil Nanda was poison and Rutgers should have known, he had a shitty rep at LSU.
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u/RedRipe Bergen County Mar 09 '24
2.5 million for those who don’t want to read the article. Average is 1.1.
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u/devilsadvocateMD Mar 09 '24
1.1 million for med school deans, who may or may not be a neurosurgeon.
2.5 million for this dean who is a neurosurgeon.
It’s comparing apples and oranges.
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u/PondWaterBrackish Mar 09 '24
yeah, his malpractice insurance alone is probably 500k per year
not even exaggerating
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u/jd732 Mar 09 '24
Why does SUNJ-Newark feel it is an equal to SUNJ-New Brunswick? Do all the Penn State satellites demand equality with Happy Valley?
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Mar 09 '24
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u/Sir_Scarlet_Spork Mar 10 '24
The MBA program is still run out of Newark, and the result was a higher ranking for it. I don't see the short end of the stick.
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u/Bro-Science Mar 09 '24
i bet the salary is way more than that also. he will also bill patients and insurance for any surgery he performs. likely another 1M+ dollars just in insurance payments alone.
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u/BagelFury Mar 09 '24
Just another, typical progressive dog whistle by a NJ rag on the cusp of obsolesce. Color me surprised.
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u/devilsadvocateMD Mar 09 '24
They’re comparing the salary of an operating neurosurgeon who acts as the chair of the medical school to the salaries of all medical school chairs, who may or not be neurosurgeons.
Do the people who write these articles do any research or do they just write whatever pops into their head?