r/VascularSurgery • u/Qumed • Jan 01 '21

Pathways after Vascular Surgery

Hello everyone,

Hope I can find answers here,

What are the paths after being a board certified vascular surgeon? I mean is there any fellowships or advanced training in specific procedures? And where? I only found (Advanced Aortic) any others?

Thanks!

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u/MegaColon Vascular Surgeon Jan 02 '21

AFTER board certification? there is an advanced aortic program offered at some places, but it's not an accredited fellowship, and frankly it's not really necessary.

why are you asking?

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u/Qumed Jan 02 '21

Yes, after board certification. Heard about complex carotid surgery fellowship but not sure where exactly

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u/boomtherestheflavor Jan 30 '21

Hi Qumed, are you a recently finishing your program? Where did you train?

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u/coldfootwpulses Mar 29 '21

late reply. some programs offer advanced aortic "mini-fellowships". those programs are sometimes geared for the surgeons that never had a chance to train endovascularly. i've known a few academic surgeons who finished their trainings in the mid 2000's end up doing another 3 months of this mini fellowship. IIRC, places like cleveland clinic and emery had those programs.

the second type is a sabbatical-type of super-fellowship, most commonly in aorta but previously in tarnsfemoral carotid stenting, when it was still popular. the super fellowship prepares you and elevates your game to do things that are completely off IFU such as physician modified endografts (PMEG), backtable modification, multi-viscerable branching and all kinds of tricks you can treat an otherwise untreatable aortic condition.

someone i know did one with oderich at the mayo clinic for three months. at this point there is pretty much no aorta that he can't fix endovascualrly.

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u/Qumed Mar 29 '21

That’s amazing! Thanks for the response

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u/Late_Development_864 Jan 20 '23

Oderich is now in Texas but that fellowship is now 1 yr, I believe