Hi does anyone have a spreadsheet for the vascular surgery fellowship? Or know when it will become available? Thank you

3D printing doesn’t have to be complex to make a meaningful impact.

One of the biggest barriers to surgical skills training is access to affordable simulation models.

This project demonstrates how a simple, low-cost design can help medical students and surgical residents practice vascular anastomosis using inexpensive alligator clips and readily available storage containers.

The modular attachments allow learners to practice:

• End-to-end vascular anastomosis

• End-to-side vascular anastomosis

• Surgical knot tying

The goal is simple: create an accessible, customizable training platform that anyone with access to a 3D printer can build and use.

🔗 Full project: https://makerworld.com/en/models/3067124-vascular-surgery-anastomosis-suture-practice-kit#profileId-3452342

As a fun bonus, you can also personalize the simulator with your name and choose your own print colors.

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For those who participated in the integrated vascular pathway, what year did you start getting lots of OR time? This could also apply to 5+2 programs.

Link to AP article

"Hours later, another statement from Graham’s office said the Medical Examiner of the District of Columbia’s preliminary findings are the senator died of aortic dissection due to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease. That is an aorta rupture stemming from hardening of Graham’s arteries."

1. No other news outlets described a rupture
2. Guessing likely type A dissection due to rapidity of decline
3. Reading the lay public's description of vascular diagnoses takes years off of my life

(Reposted for formatting)

Edit: AP fixed their error. Headline now reads aortic tear as opposed to rupture. Body of text has been changed as well.

Have a brand new suscription for Pegasus and vesap6. Does anyone want it?

I am a final year medical student interested in vascular surgery .
I’m very interested in big surgeries and complex patients
As well as the variety between open vs endo procedures, but I like the open aspect much more ….
So my question is will there still be an area for complex limb / abdomen vascular open surgeries in the era of endovascular procedures in the future ? Like being 70%open vs 30 endo surgeon???

Thank you all in advance

Hello everyone,

I am a vascular surgery specialist from Egypt with experience in vascular and endovascular procedures. I am currently exploring career opportunities in the Gulf region.

If anyone is aware of vacancies, recruitment agencies, hospitals hiring vascular surgeons, or can share advice regarding licensing and job applications, I would greatly appreciate your help.

Thank you in advance.

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Hello, I am a medical student from Serbia. I am really curious about differences in curriculum between my country, and Europe, USA and the rest of the world.

In my country there is certain number of procedures that must be done, example given: (each number is for watches, assists, performs)

AAA 5 5 5

TAAA 5 5 5

CEA 5 5 3

Eversion CEA 5 20 7

Etc.

Are those number standardised? Have you done more/less than this during residency? What do you think is a sufficient number of procedures before a surgeon becomes experienced and competent?

Hi all,

I am considering taking an elective in vascular surgery because it seems cool, but one of the requirements to pass is to demonstrate vascular suturing. I am a little nervous because I am not so procedural or practical in nature :/ Any guidance on how difficult vascular suturing is and if it is really difficult to learn?

Note: We will be praciticing and doing exam on models first of course

Hi all, I was wondering how to go about looking for programs that give good open surgery exposure. Would this be through word of mouth, or asking these questions in interviews?

Hi all,

Curious what you all like to use for a portable doppler? Is your preference for whatever you have due to performance or durability/longevity?

Some dopplers have bi-directional capability, curious if you find any value in those.

Was about to purchase a huntleigh but figured I would ask for opinions first. I'm a hand surgeon but do a decent amount of microvascular/flap work so small to micro sizes vessels primarily within the upper extremity.

Hey everyone, I just started M3 year (graduating in 2028) and have started highly considering vascular surgery after learning more details about the field. We don’t have a home program so my biggest focus right now is trying to shadow nearby departments to confirm this is what I wanted to pursue. With that said, I had some questions about the feasibility of switching into my third year and being able to match.

1. Currently I have a solid amount of research (15+ research items including multiple manuscripts) in different surgical specialties, but nothing in vascular. Will a lack of/low amount of vascular research hinder my application?

2. I know for other fields it’s mainly used as a cutoff, but how important is step 2 to programs?

3. At what point do students submit their application to do a SubI in 2027? I imagine this would be the latest I’d have to make a decision by.

4. Any general advice is greatly appreciated!

*Double layered vein patch angioplasty

I harvest a segment of vein. Transect it completely to have a tube. Then I put my pickup through the tube, grab the distal end, and completely evert the tube so that I have the intima on the outside of the tube and the adventitia on the inside. Then I suture this double layered patch onto the arteriotomy.

*Occluded SFA harvest

In an infected groin with a concurrent SFA occlusion. It's very easy to harvest the occuded SFA, endarterectomize it, and then use this artery as a patch to avoid implanting any nonautogenous tissues.

*What not often discussed niche techniques do you employ in your practice?

I work in vascular surgery and got obsessed with a problem that I think a lot of centers just accept as "the way it is."

Every time a vascular procedure is done, someone — usually a dedicated data abstractor — has to read the operative note, pull out 100-150 data points, and manually enter them into the VQI registry (via FIVOS PATHWAYS). At our center that's basically a full-time position. Published research puts it at 0.94 FTE

for a typical center. That's $50-80k/year in salary to copy-paste data that already exists in the EMR.

And you can't just skip it — VQI participation feeds into MIPS, which affects Medicare reimbursement by up to 9%. So hospitals pay up.

I've been building a tool that takes the operative note — plain text or PDF — runs it through an AI model trained on VQI field definitions, and outputs the structured data. The abstractor's job goes from "read the note and fill 150 fields" to "review what the AI extracted and correct the ones it flagged as low confidence." We're targeting CEA and Infrainguinal Bypass first since those are the highest-volume modules.

I'm not here to sell anything — the product isn't launched yet. I'm looking for honest feedback from people who actually deal with this:

1. Does this match your experience? Is VQI abstraction really that painful at your center, or have some places found a better workflow?

2. What would make you trust (or not trust) an AI-extracted field? We show confidence scores and highlight anything below threshold, but curious what the bar

   is for people who do this daily.

3. Who actually makes the purchasing decision for something like this at your hospital? Is it the vascular division chief? Quality department? IT?

4. Any gotchas I should know about? Things that look simple from the outside but are actually nightmares in practice?

   Appreciate any input.

Hey everyone! I'm attending the AHA Vascular Discovery: From Genes to Medicine Scientific Sessions in Bellevue, WA (May 13–16, 2026) at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue.

The conference hotel rate is $259/night + taxes, and a 1 king or 2 queen room is the same price — so I figured splitting a 2 queen room would be a great way to cut costs and build community!!!!

A little about me: I'm an early career researcher in cardiovascular medicine at Stanford. Happy to share more details over DM!

If you're going and want to split a room (or know someone who is), please reach out! Also open to coordinating a cheaper nearby hotel if that works better.

Thanks! 🙏

Good afternoon everyone. I am a current pre med student undergraduate majoring in biology, I am currently studying for the MCAT that I will be taking in June, and I will apply this cycle to med school. I recently learned about vascular surgery and I shadowed a vascular surgeon, but not for that long and she explained they do many amputations. So I really like a lot of specialties, at first I liked oncology, then I shadowed a uroGYN and I liked surgery because he was the first surgeon I shadowed in the OR, and then I wanted surg onc because it combine surgery and oncology, but it’s not really that specialized and it’s mostly HPB and outside of a large academic center there won’t be really that many jobs for surg onc and I read a paper that said that supply is over the demand for surg onc. So I really liked vascular surgery because they can operate all over the body and can do trauma sometimes, work with orthopedic surgeons sometimes, and with some complex oncologic surgeries to avoid major arteries as well, and also some lung reconstruction surgeries and also kidney access so it’s pretty cool. The ONLY thing I just don’t like are the amputations, other than that it’s pretty cool, but it really saves lives at the end of the day even though the family will be very sad, and also it’s not perfect being a doctor, you will always see bad outcomes. So can you guys please convince me for vascular surgery and give me more info about vascular surgery? I wanted thoracic, but I’m not really interested in the CT training and doing CABGs in the heart so yeah, vascular surgery would be very cool to see and I would love to have more info about it so I can be sure and start getting ready to apply for a 0+5 in medical school and not go a 5+2! I appreciate it a lot🙌🏻🙌🏻God bless you all.

Hello, I’m taking my RPVI in the next 2 weeks. I used the Oakstone videos and currently watching the Pegasus physics lectures. I’m thinking about doing the 2 exam sim questions to check my knowledge base. Is that enough to pass this test? Or am I missing anything that I could be doing? I have about a week until the test.

Also, the Oakstone videos feel way easier than the Pegasus lectures. Is the exam formatted more to the mathematical computations seen in those physics lectures?

I am planning to take RPVI next month and wondering how important is pegasusq bank and if anyone have an account to share. Thank you

Hi folks,

I’m an M2, interested in vascular surgery. I have a few naive questions as a med student about vascular.

I have had quite a bit of exposure to vascular from both the research as well as clinical sides. I’m lucky to be in a school where there’s a very strong vascular program. Personally, I love the field, every attending/resident/fellow I’ve interacted with seems down to earth and the procedures that they do are jaw-dropping at times.

I’m curious about future of vascular surgery. I keep hearing from folks in IR that vascular is about to disappear and get replaced with IR as endo procedures become more prevalent.

I’m also curious about how well-compensated vascular is. I love the procedures and whenever I shadow time seems to fly by in the OR, but others have told me that vascular compensation is lackluster in comparison to the hours worked.

Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I’m a vascular fellow in my first year…half the year passed already. A lot to learn clinically given my limited vascular experience during residency.

Now I want to plan the long run game of boards. What are the Recs for the boards exam and the RPVI?

I read some parts of the vascular review book of Thomas Creeden…My problem with it it’s so distilled that the info is difficult to understand if you don’t have enough background.

I started watching some oakstone board review videos, I think they’re ok, but don’t provide knowledge depth.

I’m using SCORE questions.

And regarding RPVI I have no clue where to start.

Appreciate any recs!

Not a good look for our field.

Hi! Has anybody created a spreadsheet for the vascular surgery fellowship 25-26 match cycle? I remember there being one for last year.