Senior Fellowships
The participation of non-ACGME clinical fellows helps the division manage the high volume of surgery and maintain the allowable maximum of every-third-night call for the cardiothoracic residents. The clinical fellows serve at the discretion of the cardiothoracic chief resident to provide enhanced coverage of surgical cases. Highly skilled cardiac surgeons from all over the world spend one to three years in the clinical fellowship program gaining additional skill in cardiac surgery before returning to their countries of origin. For more information contact: Ralph Morton Bolman III, M.D.
Junior Fellowships
The PGY-2 critical care fellowship program provides a one year experience in cardiac surgical perioperative care. The responsibilities are in most respects identical to those of second year general surgery residents who rotate through the cardiac surgery service for two months periods. This is an intensive exposure to all aspects of care of the cardiac surgical patients with a particular focus on postoperative care in the intensive care unit. In addition, fellows will participate in preoperative evaluation and decision making. Time in the operating room is also provided to gain an appreciation of cardiac pathology, surgical techniques and intraoperative physiology. Patients are managed by the PGY-2 fellow in conjuction with attending staff, senior fellows and residents, fellow PGY-2 residents, physician assistants and consultants. Skills in commonly performed postoperative procedures (e.g. central venous and arterial line placement, bronchoscopy, and chest tube placement) are performed under supervision. Educational content includes daily didactic teaching sessions with attending staff, as well as weekly morbidity and mortality and teaching conferences sponsored by the Department of General Surgery and the Division of Cardiac Surgery. For more information please contact: Ralph Morton Bolman III, M.D.
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