Thoracic surgery w/o cardiac surgery

[Chief Resident]

Is there such thing as a thoracic surgery fellowship that can be done after a general surgery residency which does not include training in cardiac surgery, or are they all the traditional cardiothoracic surgery fellowships?

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[SLUser11]

Is there such thing as a thoracic surgery fellowship that can be done after a general surgery residency which does not include training in cardiac surgery, or are they all the traditional cardiothoracic surgery fellowships?

They exist, but I think you still have to take the CARDIO-thoracic boards afterwards...no way around it.

 

[ivan lewis]

There are a few thoracic programs in the country (MSKCC definitely, possibly MD Anderson and Brigham) but they require you to do some cardiac months. The difference is that you get to spend more time doing thoracics than cardiac.

 

[Pilot Doc]

There are a few thoracic programs in the country (MSKCC definitely, possibly MD Anderson and Brigham) but they require you to do some cardiac months. The difference is that you get to spend more time doing thoracics than cardiac.

You can go abroad (England, Australia, etc.) for thoracic only, but you can't sit for the combined american CT boards.

 

[Chief Resident]

Anybody know how true it is that the combined cardiothoracic board is going to split into two separate boards, one for cardiac and the other for thoracic surgery?

 

[Tenesma]

would you really want to be a chest surgeon without the basic understandings of cardiac surgery? especially if you end up doing any chest trauma? i think it would be wiser to choose a fellowship that is thoracic heavy than avoid cardiac altogether...

 

[Plastikos]

USC has a thoracic-foregut fellowship with the Demeester's that im sure does not include cardiac. They are some of the most famous thoracic surgeons around, except you arent able to be boarded in thoracic-foregut yet. That doesnt stop people from doing it every year.

 

[Pilot Doc]

would you really want to be a chest surgeon without the basic understandings of cardiac surgery?

The rest of the world somehow manages.