Educational Experience - Thoracic Surgery Fellowship Program

There is weekly protected conference time for didactics and wet labs, and trainees have a structured curriculum to follow provided by the Society of Thoracic Surgery. Fellows actively participate in monthly patient safety conferences in which the outcomes, performance and case volumes are reviewed with the attendance and participation of all faculty. Other conferences are elective and rotation specific, including a combined monthly cardiology/cardiac surgery, a bi-weekly Upper GI, weekly heart and lung selection, thoracic oncology, and adult and pediatric cath conferences, and a thoracic surgery case conference. There is a quarterly Journal club attended by the staff from around the region.

Academic experience is augmented with the pursuit of clinical projects and it is expected that each resident will have the opportunity to present their work at local and national meetings as well as publish in peer-reviewed journals.