Innovations in Pediatric Surgery Fellowship Program

The Division of Pediatric Surgery at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford would like to offer a non-ACGME accredited fully funded 1-2 year fellowship.

This program is designed for highly motivated mid- or post-general surgery residency candidates interested in becoming successful, independent basic or clinical investigators, and future leaders in academics. The main objective for the fellowship is to graduate individuals who will advance the field of pediatric surgery. Fellows will develop and conduct high-quality research protocols under the guidance of experienced faculty with advanced degrees in basic science and clinical investigation.

At the completion of the fellowship, participants will have gained hands-on experience in local, regional and national research, presentation of research results at high-profile professional meetings and publications in peer-reviewed journals. Our diverse faculty allows for the development of a variety of clinical and basic science research interests, reflecting the general nature of our specialty. More specifically, minimal access surgery and endoscopy, bariatric surgery, fetal therapy, short bowel syndrome, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, necrotizing enterocolitis, surgical oncology, vascular anomalies, and large databases analyses such as NSQIP-Pediatrics.

The Fellowship is intended to include 70% of research time and 30% of clinical time, and the fellow should work less than 80 hours a week. The Program Coordinator and the Program Director (Hadley Monin and Matias Bruzoni, MD) will be in charge of monitoring works hours. Examples of clinical time include:

• Scrubbing in the operating room for selected cases related to research projects.
• Participating in selected outpatient specialty clinics.
• Enrolling patients for clinical trials and participating in the clinical care associated with them.
• Call schedule participation: Many of the studies we perform include patients that come in after hours, in a more unpredictable fashion, i.e. gastroschisis management, operative versus non operative management of appendicitis, research in trauma, fetal therapy, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, necrotizing enterocolitis, etc.
• The fellow will also participate in our weekly division meeting that includes our Core Course didactic session, Journal Club, Morbidity and Mortality conference, and different subspecialty conferences with Radiology, Pathology and the Gastrointestinal service.

Prerequisites:

Applicants should have completed at least the PGY-3 year with a minimum of 3 years in an ACGME-accredited general surgery residency program by the start of the fellowship.

Prior experience with statistical software (i.e. SAS/SPSS) is preferred.

How To Apply:

To apply to the program, a current curriculum vitae, a statement of interest, and 1 letter of recommendation from the candidate's current program director or chair must be submitted to [email protected].