Microsurgery Fellowship - Plastic Surgery

Microsurgery Fellowship - Plastic Surgery

This is a one-year clinical instructorship and fellowship in microsurgery and complex reconstruction. The program encompasses the entire breadth of reconstructive procedures, both oncologic and traumatic. Fellows will gain experiences with preoperative planning, high-volume operative cases, and post-operative continuity of care.

Training focuses on functional and aesthetic reconstruction of defects and deficits throughout the entire body. The fellowship includes a broad range of clinical experiences including: reconstruction of acquired mastectomy defects following breast cancer surgery (DIEP, SIEA, TRAM, PAP, VUG/TUG/DUG), lymphovenous bypass and lymph node transplants, sarcoma and lower / upper extremity reconstruction, head and neck reconstruction including facial paralysis, chest wall reconstruction, and gender affirmation surgery. There are also opportunities to gain experience in alloplastic and complex non-microsurgical breast reconstruction and pedicled flaps should the fellow desire. 

The fellow will see patients in clinic pre-operatively and post-operatively to become comfortable with developing a surgical plan and understand pre-operative imaging needs and optimization of patients as well as post-operative care and care needs. They will follow those patients to surgical treatment in the OR and then be responsible for rounding on them post-operatively in hospital with the resident complement on service. They will be responsible for overseeing the residents decision making and are management while in hospital and will act as the 'responsible attending'.

Clinical Instructors are involved in the educational program and work closely with residents and students. The fellow will have educational responsibilities towards the junior and senior residents on service. Our expectation is teaching them in all settings, whether that be in the clinic, on the floor during rounds, or in the operating room. They will also be expected to present plastic surgery grand rounds on a microsurgical topic of their choosing.

The fellow will work with Drs. Winocour, Kaoutzanis, Mathes, Egan, Yu. Learn more about our faculty here.

Eligibility: Completion of an ACGME-accredited Residency in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.  Candidates must have completed and passed USMLE 3 or COMLEX 3.