House Officer Salary and Benefits
Resident salaries are similar for all members of the Council of Boston
Teaching Hospitals; rates are adjusted annually to account for cost of
living. Training conditions and work schedules follow the guidelines of the
Residency Review Committee for Neurological Surgery of the Accreditation
Council on Graduate Medical Education.
The program provides a wide range of benefits, including malpractice
insurance coverage, on-call meals, and short- and long-term disability
insurance. The program also makes available the opportunity to purchase
several types of health, dental and life insurance. Each intern is allotted
three weeks’ vacation; all higher level residents are allotted four
vacation weeks per year. In addition, the program has a liberal leave of
absence policy for residents who are new parents, require medical leave, or
need to care for a seriously ill family member.
Licensure
All residents and clinical fellows appointed to the Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center Neurological Surgery Residency Program must hold a current
limited license or a current full license to practice medicine in the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Applications for the limited license are
obtained from the Surgical Education Office. Limited licenses must be
renewed every year, up to a maximum of five years. The cost of a limited
license is $100 annually.
Applications for full licensure should be sent directly to the
Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, 200 Harvard Mill Square,
Suite 330, Wakefield, MA 01880. The website is
mass.gov/eohhs/gov/departments/borim.Please contact borim.info@state.ma.us with
questions.
Application Process and Deadline
The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Neurological Surgery Residency
Program participates in ERAS, the Electronic Residency Application Service.
The program selects interns through the National Resident Matching Program
in accordance with the policies established by the NRMP.
Deadline for receipt of all application documents is November 1. All
applicants are required to pass USMLE Step-2 before starting in a
first-year position.
Interviews
Each application is reviewed in its entirety with an eye toward a
combination of overall academic excellence, leadership ability, career
development potential and personal character. Qualified individuals will be
invited to interview. Interviews are held on selected days from November
through the following January. No interviews are scheduled without an
invitation, and no individual interviews are scheduled outside of these
scheduled sessions. Any candidate who is invited to interview must contact
the Surgical Education Office to confirm acceptance of the invitation.