Looking for Non-ASOPRS oculoplastic fellowship opportunity

[fernandezcarlac]

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Hi everyone, I am looking for possible Non-ASOPRS oculoplastic's fellowship opportunities. Why non-ASOPRS? Lon-story short. My fiance is doing his uro-peds fellowship in Atlanta starting next July and I am trying to train around the area as we have now been on a 5-year long, long-distance relationship. Emory was odd year, so they were not taking anyone for my cycle. So far I've been unsuccessful on finding training in the area, therefore I am open to a non-ASOPRS 1 year fellowship anywhere. If you know of an opportunity, please let me know. I truly appreciate it. Thank you!!

 

[eyeeye_captain]

Quick Google search says you’ve got nothing other than Emory in Atlanta. I’m a little confused - you want to be in Atlanta or you want to go non-ASOPRS anywhere so the timelines match up?

Any extra big reasons you want to try to do that over just doing a year of comp somewhere in town?

I think @TheLesPaul is the only consistent plastics member here and may be able to help. I freely admit my biases, but I really cannot recommend doing a 1 year non-ASOPRS fellowship.

 

[TheLesPaul]

there are less and less of these fellowships. they're honestly fine if you want to do comp and just do a few uppers and entropions/ectropions here and there. anything more and you should do ASOPRS or you will have to spend a fair amount of time watching someone after your fellowship. people do that but they are very self-motivated and would have succeeded in an asoprs fellowship anyway

 

[phacobleph]

I do plastics (no orbit) (still do anterior segment) and did a non-asoprs training. Depending on what you want to do/have your practice look like, this will take a very large amount of self-directed teaching. I watch videos and read papers everyday (I’m 3 years out) on almost an obsessive level haha. I enjoy it. And I think it’s possible to perform eyelid surgery and facelifts at a high level by doing so - but having the strong foundation, seeing a ton of cases and complications and managing them under an experienced attending, etc is priceless. Anyone can learn how to do a surgery (to an extent, of course) - cut this, don’t cut that -> but managing the things that go wrong, identifying problems early to optimize healing, knowing all the possible outcomes, etc is super important in plastics type stuff.

 

[TheLesPaul]

I do plastics (no orbit) (still do anterior segment) and did a non-asoprs training. Depending on what you want to do/have your practice look like, this will take a very large amount of self-directed teaching. I watch videos and read papers everyday (I’m 3 years out) on almost an obsessive level haha. I enjoy it. And I think it’s possible to perform eyelid surgery and facelifts at a high level by doing so - but having the strong foundation, seeing a ton of cases and complications and managing them under an experienced attending, etc is priceless. Anyone can learn how to do a surgery (to an extent, of course) - cut this, don’t cut that -> but managing the things that go wrong, identifying problems early to optimize healing, knowing all the possible outcomes, etc is super important in plastics type stuff.

if you are who I'm thinking of (and are in an East Coast state somewhere south of Virginia...) -- you are exactly the type of person I was thinking of when I said that you can succeed if you are self-motivated and would have done great in ASOPRS anyway.

 

[phacobleph]

if you are who I'm thinking of (and are in an East Coast state somewhere south of Virginia...) -- you are exactly the type of person I was thinking of when I said that you can succeed if you are self-motivated and would have done great in ASOPRS anyway.

thanks 🙂 jealous that I can’t do all those super complex things you know how to do though!