Nth Dimensions Educational Solutions, Inc., helping women and minorities advance in the field of orthopaedics

Dr. Bonnie Simpson Mason, MD

Dr. Bonnie Simpson Mason, MD, a Board-Certified Orthopaedic Surgeon and Founder as well as Executive Director of Nth Dimensions Educational Solutions, Inc. joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Dr. Bonnie Simpson Mason discuss the following:

  • Can you tell us about Nth Dimensions and the company’s mission?
  • I understand that you were a practicing orthopedic surgeon before starting Nth Dimensions? Why the change in your career path? What prompted you to start Nth Dimensions?
  • Why is there such a strong need for Nth Dimensions?
  • What are some of the greatest challenges that minority pre-med and medical students are facing and how are you and Nth Dimensions helping to overcome them?
  • What are some of Nth Dimensions greatest success stories? What, regarding Nth Dimensions, makes you the most proud?
  • What are your hopes and plans for Nth Dimensions as you continue to grow and the company continues to thrive?
  • What advice or words of wisdom would you like to share with others who are forced into making alternative career choices like you were?

Through innovative educational programs on the business of medicine, leadership and diversity, Dr. Mason’s personal mission is to teach, facilitate and empower future and current physicians to reach their maximum potential as comprehensively-prepared medical professionals. The past 20 years as a clinician and educator have enabled her to develop expertise in medical education program innovation and implementation from the physician’s perspective.

As an alumnus of the Kellogg School of Management, Dr. Mason knows that it is more important than ever to ensure that physicians are comprehensively prepared to lead and manage healthcare teams in the face of delivery and payment system reform. Thus, Dr. Mason’s experience as a practicing, board-certified orthopaedic surgeon and physician administrator of a private practice led her to develop a comprehensive business of medicine and practice management curriculum for physicians, www.BeyondtheExamRoom.com®. Initially, introduced in 2011, BeyondtheExamRoom.com® has registered over 3,000 physician and resident users in over 30 US institutions. Dr. Mason delivers this curriculum to future and practicing physicians nationwide with the support of experienced physician- and expert-faculty.

Forced into early retirement from surgical practice due to rheumatoid arthritis, Dr. Mason rallied turning a perceived roadblock into an opportunity to effect and create change throughout the next phase of her professional career. Now with expertise in physician workforce development and mentoring, Dr. Mason has focused her post-surgical career on educational efforts in diversity and physician leadership. In 2015, she was recognized nationally as the 2015 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Diversity Award recipient for her work through Nth Dimensions, an educational non-profit which Dr. Mason founded in 2004.

Through Nth Dimensions, Dr. Mason has coordinated a team of over 40 orthopaedic surgeons from 30 institutions and private practices to educate over 3000 medical students about musculoskeletal medicine, healthcare disparities and orthopaedic surgery as a career option. Through Nth Dimensions Pipeline Initiatives, over 100 women and underrepresented minorities have been matched in orthopaedic residency programs as Nth Dimensions Scholars.

Dr. Mason holds faculty appointments as adjunct associate professor of GME at the University of Louisville School of Medicine and as clinical assistant professor in the Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at the University of Texas, Medical Branch in Galveston. Dr. Mason’s additional endeavors include committee and board positions with various AAOS groups, such as the Leadership Fellows Committee, the Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society, and mentoring chair for the J. Robert Gladden Orthopaedic Society. Dr. Mason is also a proud wife and a mother of two future leaders.

Nth Dimensions Educational Solutions, Inc.

Website: www.nthdimensions.org

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