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Virginia Mason Medical Center (VM) is a 300 bed teaching hospital in downtown Seattle staffed by a multispecialty group of 500 full-time employed physicians. VM has been a leader in the care delivered to patients with complicated HPB for over 30 years. The volume of HPB cases consistently has been high so that VM’s surgical residents have graduated with all their numbers in the HPB category. In addition to a strong HPB-surgery group, VM's Center for Digestive Health hosts internationally recognized groups of academic gastroenterologists, interventional radiologists, thoracic surgeons and medical oncologists, who all specialize in digestive disease and together fall under one umbrella. This multidisciplinary team approach ensures the best care for the HPB patient and intuitively creates a setting that is ripe and ideal for an HPB fellowship and for comprehensive HPB clinical research. The fellow is sure to have a tremendous clinical experience, as well as participate in clinical research.

This HPB fellowship will follow the American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association & Fellowship Council curriculum and will fulfill the requirements set forth by these organizations. In response to the evolving HPB landscape of HPB positions available, as well as the increasing role of minimally invasive techniques in HPB, the fellowship progam moved to a 2-year format (2018). The 2-year fellowship begins with a detailed learner's (fellow) needs assessment and, subsequently, the educational design and structure of the fellowship will be molded as to fulfill the learner's gaps and to help the learner achieve their long-term goals.

Comprehensively, the two years will focus on fellow development in all the following areas:

    1. Clinical competence (outpatient, operative and inpatient)

    2. Research and academic productivity

    3. Career development and system building/leadership education

    4. Advanced minimally invasive and open psychomotor training.

Year 1 will focus on advanced minimally invasive psychomotor training, professional development, clinical research and teaching while at the same time operating and participating in clinic. The fellow will rotate with 3 HPB faculty.

Year 2 will be an intensive clinically busy year spent in the operating room, on the in-patient floor and in the clinics. In addition, the fellow will spend 6 weeks on an away rotation on the liver transplant service at OHSU.

The clinical focus of the  The VM HPB Fellowship will fall under four categories: 1) Independent & detailed preoperative evaluation and decision making training 2) Meticulous intra-operative skills training (open and laparoscopic) 3) Independent & thorough postoperative HPB-patient care training 4) Comprehensive multidisciplinary care systems design and management training.

Please visit our webpage. The webpage also has our fellowship poster.

Basic Program Information:

• Location: Seattle, Washington
• Primary Program Site: Virginia Mason Medical Center
• Primary Hospital: Total bed size, # OR's, # Surgical ICU beds: Virginia Mason: 270 beds: 21 operating rooms, 20 ICU beds
• Secondary Program Site: Not applicable
• Secondary Hospital: Total bed size, # OR's, # Surgical ICU beds:
• Clinic locations and schedule:

  Downtown Seattle at Virginia Mason Medical Center

• University Affiliation: None
• School of Medicine Affiliation: University of Washington
• Year Program and/or Designation Established: 2011
• Number of Faculty: Three
• % of Program Clinical: 80
• % of Program Research: 20

Additional Program Information:

• Interaction with Residents: Some cases shared
• Is there a General Surgery Residency at the Primary Institution? Yes
• Is there a General Surgery Residency at the Secondary Institution? No
• Is there a curriculum in place for fellowship? Yes
• Is there a skills lab at the institution with fellow access? Yes
• Are there teaching conferences available for the fellow? Yes
• Is there an evaluation tool for fellow by faculty in place? Yes
• Is there an evaluation tool for faculty by fellow in place? Yes
• Papers Accepted For Publication where PD was an author: 0
• Publications that Involved Input from the Fellow: 2
• Are funds available for the Fellow to attend conferences? Yes

Malpractice Insurance Information:

• The fellow(s) is also required to have attending privileges (insurance coverage must also include all activities for their work while they act as a fellow and an attending) and the program provides the following:
  
  Claims-based malpractice coverage including a tail for the statute of limitations

Contact Information For Questions:

Mindy Vu
Phone: 206-341-1257
Fax: 206-341-0048
Email: [email protected]
Web: https://www.vmfh.org/

Facilities

Dry Lab
Library
Administrative Support
Clinical Research
Simulation Lab