In addition to clinical training, fellows participate in a variety of education experiences to further their education and exposure to transplant surgery.
Additional training opportunities
Fellows participate in a variety of educational experiences including our weekly Transplant Issues Conference including invited leaders in transplant medicine and surgery.
The Organ Transplant Center also directs the multidisciplinary hepatobiliary tumor board which meets weekly to develop plans for patients with primary and metastatic malignancy.
Additional training opportunities are available in the following areas.
- Transplant immunology
- Transplant infectious disease
- Pediatric transplantation
Conference and teaching program
Abdominal organ transplant surgical fellows actively participate in numerous weekly conferences including the following.
- Transplant Issues Conference
- A multidisciplinary weekly meeting, including invited speakers examining the key issues facing transplantation
- Transplant quality review
- Journal club
In addition, there are weekly kidney and liver evaluation meetings, multidisciplinary hepatobiliary conference, and team rounds.
Fellows also join the Department of Surgery grand rounds and morbidity/mortality conference. Finally, the fellows have dedicated teaching hours weekly with Organ Transplant Center staff physicians and complete the ASTS Academic Universe curriculum.
Fellows complete required ASTS required in-service examinations. The fellow will be certified in FLS prior to graduation.