Thoracic Surgery

[WantsThisBad]

Since there is no forum for thoracic I figured ide ask here. How does one go about getting into thoracic surgery? Is there a residency specific for it or do you get to it through a different surgical residency route? Any help would be great. thanks - Nick

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[Blade28]

Since there is no forum for thoracic I figured ide ask here. How does one go about getting into thoracic surgery? Is there a residency specific for it or do you get to it through a different surgical residency route? Any help would be great. thanks - Nick

You should probably do a search since this is a fairly popular topic now - but in general, it's a 5-year General Surgery residency followed by a 2-3 year Cardiothoracic Surgery fellowship. Some residents choose to do research during residency, so that may push the duration to 7-8 years.

 

[WantsThisBad]

thanks

 

[AJ2000]

There are 3 pathways to thoracic surgery certification:

1) general surgery + fellowship = 5 +2/3 years
2) 4 + 3 general/thoracic pathway (done at same institution) -- certification in both general and thoracic
3) integrated 6 year program -- certification in thoracic only

So far, 4 programs I believe have pathway #2 -- WashU, UVa, Mayo, and UTSW. No program that I know of offers pathway #3.

 

[Joel Fleischman]

anybody know of any programs doing the 6y (ish) thoracic only?
also who are the thoracic oncology felowships meant for?

 

[Willh81]

anybody know of any programs doing the 6y (ish) thoracic only?
also who are the thoracic oncology felowships meant for?

The Burgerman General. Guaranteed 400k Salary upon cert.

 

[Joel Fleischman]

um......
at anyrate... My question regarding thoracic onc fellowships was asking are these intended for people right out of general surgery or are they for those post CT surgery fellowships?
I have heard that these Onc type fellowships do not give certification just the chance to claim expertise.


I believe the boards still written for C AND T, thus you need to have some exposure to C even if you just want to do T. I know BWH has a Thoracic biased programs... any others?

 

[pyromatic]

2) 4 + 3 general/thoracic pathway (done at same institution) -- certification in both general and thoracic
3) integrated 6 year program -- certification in thoracic only

Does anyone have any more information on if/when the 4+3 and 6 year integrated programs will become more wide spread? Is there a trend toward replacing the typical general surgery + thoracic residencies with these two options, or will the new 80/8 hour work weeks result in longer residencies and thus and even longer time spent getting into CT surgery?