Clinical Fellowship The Division of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery at the University of Southern California is pleased to offer a 1year Clinical Fellowship in Foregut and Thoracic surgery. The clinical year offers experience in one of the most active and high volume esophageal and foregut units in the United States. The staff of the Division includes 6 full-time attending surgeons with dedicated practices in gastric, esophageal and pulmonary surgery with the support of appropriate surgical house staff. The clinical service at present is doing approximately 30% of the esophagectomies in the state of California (+100 per year) and Clinical Fellows will gain experience with a wide variety of esophageal and gastric pathology and re-operative surgery. This includes extensive experience in laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication, esophageal myotomy, partial fundoplications, esophagectomies, open or minimally invasive access approaches to vagal sparing esophagectomy, and other novel procedures. Supervised experience at LAC+USC Medical Center provides the Fellow primary surgical responsibility and an opportunity for first hand patient care in the management of esophageal, gastric and pulmonary disease. To apply for a Clinical Fellowship position, please click on this link to download an application or you may request an application by emailing Pat Sanchez at pis@surgery.usc.edu . You may also request an application by mailing: Dr. Tom DeMeester, Chairman and Professor of Surgery, 1510 San Pablo Street, Suite #514, Los Angeles, California, 90033. Applications are accepted throughout the year; however the Committee does begin to review applications in August and/or September for the following academic year appointments. Completion of a general or cardiothoracic residency is required for the clinical year and the salary is $75,000. Applications are also accepted for a 2 year fellowship which includes the Research Fellowship followed by the Clinical Fellowship appointment, allowing the mastery of the fundamentals of foregut physiology and pathology. Surgeons interested in a career in the field of esophageal surgery are strongly encouraged to consider this combined research and clinical fellowship which will fully prepare them to establish a specialty practice including all diagnostic and therapeutic options for patients with esophageal disease. |
