by Joe Hartman | Sep 12, 2022 | Something Different
Blasphemy! I wasn’t intending to do a follow-up post, but I’ve been catching some heat lately. Comments. Text. Even phone calls. You know something just hit the fan if people actually use their phone to call you. I touched a nerve when I called the CNIM a... 
by Joe Hartman | Aug 22, 2022 | Something Different
What Is Your CNIM Worth? Imagine this: You go to school for 4+ years — purposely putting yourself into debt — only to realize the job you want only overlaps this expensive education on the margin. So far, you’re in pretty good company with most... 
by Joe Hartman | May 10, 2021 | Neuromonitoring Training, Something Different
Signal Improvements In tcMEP and SSEP During Spine Surgery What does everyone want for IONM? Needless recording electrodes and cordless monitoring equipment. Both would be great — if it actually worked like the alternative. But I can’t be alone in... 
by Joe Hartman | Sep 10, 2020 | Something Different
It’s easy to see that COVID-19 caused a neuromonitoring training problem, but did you know we have a chicken sexer problem too? I owe you an explanation for that one. But before I explain myself, let me tie it into some of my past post. In a couple of recent... 
by Joe Hartman | Jun 24, 2020 | Something Different
If you don’t have your CNIM (or can remember when you didn’t) there’s a difficult truth to face: it’s hard to get hired unless you already have your CNIM and can’t get it unless you get hired. But that’s really just the first... 
by Joe Hartman | Jun 8, 2020 | Something Different
In 2016, I wrote What To Expect From The Neuromonitoring Field In The Future? right after the elections. As we find ourselves in another election year — and in what’s probably still the first inning or 2 of the COVID-19 outbreak — it seems like the...
