From the Director
We are glad that you have interest in further training and experience in Vascular Surgery. We would like you to consider Geisinger Medical Center, a large tertiary care regional referral center. We are known for our advances in rural care, electronic medical records, and basic science vascular research at the Weis Center for Research on our campus. We are located in the picturesque Susquehanna Valley of Central Pennsylvania, which is a low stress, low crime area.
We are currently recruiting a board-eligible or certified surgeon for our two-year fellowship in Vascular Surgery to begin in July 2010. The fellowship has been in existence since 1981 and achieved RRC accreditation in 1991.
During the first year, the fellow spends the majority of the time in learning and performing endovascular procedures and diagnostic angiography. These procedures are done under the supervision of the four vascular-trained staff surgeons. The vascular surgeons are primary interventionalists for all procedures including carotid, peripheral and visceral stenting, thoracic stent grafts and AAA stent grafts.
The first year fellow participates in a modest amount of traditional open vascular surgery procedures. Additional time is spent in learning vascular lab skills including hands-on scanning in our own vascular laboratory with one of the six registered vascular technicians. The fellow also reads studies one day per week with instruction from the staff vascular surgeons. The remaining time the first year (approximately 15%) is spent in a research effort looking at the pathophysiology of abdominal aortic aneurysms. This research program is supported with full-time research technicians. The technicians help carry out experiments to keep the research underway when the fellow is busy with the endovascular training component of the first year.
The second year comprises the traditional open surgical and advanced endovascular training. The fellow continues to read non-invasive vascular labs one day per week. Surgical volume, within the Section of Vascular Surgery, is in excess of 600 open cases per year, approximately half of which are performed by the vascular fellow assisted by one of the four vascular-trained staff surgeons. The 2nd year fellow also performs advanced endovascular procedures. Attending surgical staff supervises the fellow in clinic one day per week.
The formal education program is structured around weekly didactic clinical sessions, preoperative conferences, staff rounds, morbidity/mortality conferences and a monthly journal club.
All of this is available in the congenial atmosphere of a 600-physician multi-specialty clinic at the center of a regional organized system of health care servicing 30 counties and over 2 million people with 5 helicopters. The very competitive R-6 and R-7 salary is complemented by the rural cost of living and a full benefits package including paid vacation time, funded CME time and expenses for presentations at national meetings.
If interested, see our How to Apply page. The main Geisinger web site for Graduate Medical Education has additional Geisinger information, sample contracts and conditions of appointment for all residents.
Feel free to call our office with any questions. We will be conducting interviews during the winter months. Sincerely,
James R. Elmore, M.D.
Director, Vascular Fellowship
jelmore@geisinger.edu
570-271-6369
Vascular Surgery
Geisinger Medical Center
100 North Academy Avenue
Danville, PA 17822-2150 Call schedule |
