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Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery Fellowship |
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Information regarding our Fellowship Programs can be found under the following subspecialty divisions:
Gynecologic Oncology
Gynecologic Specialties (Family Planning Fellowship)
Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
Reproductive Genetics
Reproductive Infectious Diseases and Immunology
Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery
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| "In Accordance with the Terms and Conditions of the NRMP's Match Participation Agreement Between Institutions and the NRMP, programs are expected to provide complete and accurate information to interviewees, including a copy of the contract the applicant will be expected to sign if matched to the program and all institutional policies regarding eligibility for appointment to a training position. The information must be communicated to interviewees in writing prior to the rank order list certification date. To meet this requirement, we ask that you review the information found on our web site prior to your interview with any of our training programs." |
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| Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery Fellowship |
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The fellowship at Magee-Womens Hospital/University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is a two-year intense academic training program in gynecologic minimally invasive surgery. The fellow will benefit from the expertise, experience, and surgical volume of five faculty members dedicated to minimally invasive surgery with specialty and fellowship training in REI and MIS. The fellowship was expanded to two years to allow the fellows to obtain a certificate in either clinical research or medical education through University of Pittsburgh’s Institute for Clinical Research Education (http://www.icre.pitt.edu/degrees/degrees.html).
With the inclusion of the Certificate Program, the fellows will now have the necessary clinical skills and research training for a productive academic career.
Depending on the fellows’ course work and year of training, their schedule will be variable. Their time will be divided between:
- Office sessions with MIS faculty – The faculty in the MIS program has a large referral practice, and under the guidance of a faculty member, the fellows see new patients referred for surgery. The focus of these office sessions will be on proper pre-operative evaluation and decision-making. At the completion of their training, the fellows will be proficient in: the multi-system approach to the evaluation of chronic pelvic pain/endometriosis, the proper evaluation of pelvic organ prolapse and incontinence, and the minimally invasive management of common gynecologic complaints (i.e. fibroids, adnexal masses, abnormal uterine bleeding).
- Operating Room – The fellows participate in all laparoscopic and hysteroscopic procedures brought to the OR by the faculty of the MIS program. Their primary responsibility is to acquire advanced surgical skills through hands-on experience, and secondarily we expect them to be teachers to the residents in the OR. Over the course of the two years, the fellows will spend on average three days a week in the OR.
- Course Work – 15 credits are required to complete the Certificate Program (http://www.icre.pitt.edu/degrees/degrees.html). The majority of the credits will be obtained in the first two months of fellowship. The remainder is to be completed over the next one to two years based on the track chosen by the fellow. All class time is protected, and the fellows have no clinical responsibilities that will interfere with their course work.
Completion of the master program in clinical research or medical education is optional and can be accomplished with prior approval of the fellowship director.
Academic time – This has been set aside so that the fellows will have protected time to pursue:
o Resident education – the fellows are responsible for the monthly MIS conference (which comprises case presentations, in-depth discussion of various MIS related topics, and surgical tutorials), laparoscopy trainer (we have a dedicated room with multiple laparoscopy trainers which allows the fellows to review basic and advanced skills, such as laparoscopic suturing), and the pig lab (this lab is run once every 5-6 weeks and allows the fellows to review laparoscopic skills in a realistic setting).
o Research – the fellow will have ample opportunities for multiple research projects. Protected research time is granted. Through our association with the Magee-Womens Hospital Research Institute and our extensive patient database, the fellow will be able to design and execute prospective and retrospective trials under the mentorship of the program faculty.
- Independent office sessions – The fellows will see patients independently and with residents in the Minimally Invasive Surgery Clinic. This is an opportunity for the fellows to evaluate and schedule patients for surgery on their own. During the first year of fellowship, a faculty member will staff the fellow’s cases. In the second year, the fellows will have their own block time to perform cases independently with faculty back up. This will be in addition to the time spent in the OR with the MIS faculty, and not as a replacement.
- The fellow will have minimal gynecology call responsibilities but no obstetric responsibilities.
Due to the varied backgrounds of the faculty in the MIS program, fellows will graduate well versed in all of the following procedures:
- Laparoscopy
o Hysterectomy (total and supracervical)
o Myomectomy
o Excision of endometriosis (including radical pelvic sidewall dissections and bowel surgery for the frozen pelvis)
o Presacral neurectomy
o Prolapse repair/Pelvic reconstruction (sacralcolpopexy, uterosacral vaginal vault suspension, paravaginal defect repair)
o Incontinence (Burch retropubic colposuspension)
o Infertility (fimbrioplasty)
o Treatment of vaginal agenesis and other Mullerian anomalies
- Hysteroscopy
o Resection of submucosal fibroids
o Endometrial Ablation
o Synechiolysis
Our expectation is that at the completion of the fellowship, the fellow will be an extremely qualified minimally invasive surgeon, and that they will pursue a career in academic medicine and train future generations of pelvic surgeons.
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| Contact Information | Ted T.M. Lee, MD
Director, Minimally Invasive Gynecology Surgery
412-641-1403
tlee@mail.magee.edu
300 Halket Street,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 | | |
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