The Unit
Description
Applications being Accepted for 2008-09 Fellowships. BWH is launching a two-year Acute Care Surgery fellowship: one year of trauma and emergency surgery training based on the AAST curriculum, including rotations in burn care, orthopedics, neurosurgery, and vascular surgery, and a second ACGME-accredited year leading to eligibility for ABS certification in Surgical Critical Care. Applications will be accepted until positions are filled.
www.brighamandwomens.org/burntrauma/medical/Fellowships.aspx
Fellowship Program
Clinical Responsibilities
Half of the fellowship year will be spent in six one-month rotations in General Surgery and Trauma Surgery. Fellows will evaluate and treat patients independently with consultation by the senior staff, keeping records of operations and outcomes that will be discussed at the close of each month. They will also participate in bedside procedures (tracheotomy, endoscopy, ultrasound guided CVL insertion) for patients under their care. As fellows gain technical proficiency, they will become the primary instructors of these skills for the residents on the Surgical Services. The other half of the fellowship year will be spent in rotations in the Burn Unit, Orthopedics, Neurosurgery, and Vascular Surgery.
Research Opportunities
Fellows will be expected to conduct an independent research project in clinical outcomes, basic science, surgical innovation, surgical education, or clinical guideline development. Fellows may choose from ongoing clinical investigations.
The BWH Division of Trauma, Burn and Surgical Critical Care has a very productive program in clinical and basic science research. Under the principal direction of Dr. Francis D. Moore, Jr., Division Chief of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery, the Trauma Research Center consists of the Trauma Center Core and several basic science research projects directed by principal investigators from the Center. The Trauma Center Core provides transgenic animals, common animal models, and shared personnel support for study of problems related to the trauma patient. Its technical, organizational, and administrative support makes possible the high degree of integrated effort of all the involved investigators. The Core also organizes and tracks all group activities, as well as provides the Outreach to widen the Harvard Trauma Research Community. Current Trauma Center projects include: IgM-Binding Epitopes in Injured Tissue, Mast Cell/Mast Cell Mediators in Ischemia Reperfusion Injury, and The Role of Natural Antibody in Reperfusion Injury. For additional information, see the BWH Trauma Center Grant website: http://www.brighamandwomens.org/traumaresearch/.
In addition, the Division’s trauma attendings have clinical research underway regarding retrievable IVC filters, catheter related sepsis, sedation and delirium, and the measuring of traumatic brain injury. Opportunities also exist for participation in drug trial research, clinical guideline development, surgical education research, anesthesia research, and translational research.
Please contact Dr. Kelly with questions about specific research interests, or visit the BWH Department of Surgery Research website: http://www.brighamandwomens.org/surgery/research/researchmain.aspx.
Salary
72,500 (yr 1)Applicant Requirements
The program invites applications from candidates who will have completed a general surgery residency and be board eligible by the start of the fellowship. Candidates most strongly demonstrating an aptitude for and commitment to an academic career in acute care surgery will be invited to interview in person.
Contact
Edward Kelly, MD, Acute Care Surgery Fellowship Program Director
75 Francis Street
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: (617) 732-8333
Fax: (617) 566-9549
Email:
URL: www.brighamandwomens.org/burntrauma/medical/Fellowships.aspx
Apr 12, 2008
