{"id":31353,"date":"2024-04-03T13:48:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T17:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/?page_id=31353"},"modified":"2024-04-04T08:23:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T12:23:03","slug":"program-description","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/thoracic-surgery-fellowship\/program-description\/","title":{"rendered":"Program Description"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-31353\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-31353-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-31353-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-31353-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p>The Thoracic Surgery Fellowship Program at UConn is a two-year traditional training program for residents who have completed ACGME-accredited general surgery programs. The program is designed to train future thoracic, cardiac, combined cardiothoracic surgeons; or those who choose to pursue additional training in congenital cardiac surgery. The core curriculum allows for flexibility based on the interests of the trainee, with between 9-15 months of thoracic surgery and 9-15 months of cardiac surgery. There is a significant focus on minimally invasive approaches to thoracic and cardiac surgery, with exposure to surgery-adjacent specialties, such as interventional pulmonology and cardiology. Fellows will have significant exposure to EBUS, navigational bronchoscopy, endoscopic airway management, TAVR, and other catheter-based interventions. The core educational curriculum includes weekly didactic sessions for cardiac and thoracic surgery following the thoracic surgery curriculum, journal clubs, morbidity and mortality conferences, disease-specific multidisciplinary conferences, and simulation exercises.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Thoracic Surgery Fellowship Program at UConn is a two-year traditional training program for residents who have completed ACGME-accredited general surgery programs. The program is designed to train future thoracic, cardiac, combined cardiothoracic surgeons; or those who choose to pursue additional training in congenital cardiac surgery. The core curriculum allows for flexibility based on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"parent":31348,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 16:33:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31413,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31353\/revisions\/31413"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}