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• 5 year program
• 2 clinical residents per year*
• Other fellows / residents
– Vascular Surgery Fellowship Program (6)
– Endo Fellows
– Aortic Fellow / Walter Reed Fellow
– General surgery 4th
year residents
– General surgery 1st
/ 2nd
year residents
– Research fellows
Welcome!
7. Clinical Volume
Main Campus 2014 2015*
Total Visits 9,881 9,813
Cases 3,034 2,974
Vasc Lab 7,124 7,205
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Region 2014 2015*
Total Visits 17,622 17,382
Cases 4,843 4,724
Vasc Lab 17,573 18,745
Combined 2014 2015*
Total Visits 27,503 27,195
Cases 7,877 7,698
Vasc Lab 24,697 25,950
*2015- September Annualized
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• Chairman: Sean Lyden, MD
• Program Director: Matthew Eagleton
• CCF Staff
Lee Kirksey W. Michael Park
Linda Graham Sean Lyden
Rebecca Kelso Sunita Srivastava
Chris Smolock Jeanwan Kang
Ezequiel Parodi Daniel Clair
Faculty
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• Marymount
Javier Alvarez-Tostado
Sotero Peralta
James Poliquin
• Hillcrest
George Anton
Tony Rizzo
Hiring a new faculty
• Fairview
James Bekeny
Jeanwan Kang
Basem Droubi
Chris Smolock
● VA
Jessie Jean-Claude and Michael Rosenbaum
Gilles Pinault
Faculty
10. Large Program
• Compartmentalized
• Work with few staff at a time
• Mentorship program
– Research
– Education
– Life
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• Conference Schedule
Wed AM Vascular M & Ms
Friday AM Didactic & case presentations
Monday PM Informal conference
Monthly Journal club
Monthly Carotid conference
Quarterly Visiting Professor Series
• Meetings
– 1st
year: Vascular “Boot Camp”
– 2nd
year: Umass Simulation Course
– 3rd
year: Medtronic technology forum
– 4th
year Venous course
– 5th
year Wes Moore UCLA Course
– Other conferences 1, 2, 3 years
Education
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• Operate 4 days
• Clinic 01 day
• Academic 01 day
• Usually off 2 weekends/mos
• 80 hr/wk compliant
“Typical” Week
13. Board Pass Rates (Past 5 years)
• Qualify Exam: 100% on first attempt
• Certifying Exam: 94% on first attempt, 100% second
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• 2014 – Minneapolis, U. Florida, Duke University affiliate, U. Kansas, Cleveland VA
• 2013 – Air Force, Emory, UCLA, U. Miami
• 2012 – Private Practice (South Central Regional Medial Center) Laurel, MS
• 2012 – Private Practice (Hurley Medical Center) Flint, MI
• 2011 – Academic (Emory, Rochester), Private Practice (Alabama)
• 2010 – Military (San Antonio), Private Practice (Indiana, Chicago)
• 2009 – Academic (CCF, Dallas, TX), Private Practice (Atlanta, GA)
• 2008 – Academic (CCF), Private Practice (South Carolina, Seattle, WA)
• 2007 – Academic (CCF, CCF), Private practice (Central California)
• 2006 – Private practice (LA, New Jersey, Atlanta)
• 2005 – Academic (Univ. Vermont), Private practice (Minnesota, Indiana)
Post Trainee Careers (both Fellowship and Residency)
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• Three weeks vacation
• Additional five days off over Christmas/New Year’s
• Off on most major holidays
• Lead aprons & lead goggles
• ABSITE / VSITE
• TeraRecon course
• Annual Stent Summit
• Annual Primer in Vascular Disease
Other
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• Varied & affordable housing options
• Many options for spouses and kids
• Active House Staff Association
• Cleveland Symphony Orchestra – ranked best in the
U.S. by Time & The New Yorker magazines
• Playhouse Square – 2nd
largest theatre complex in the
U.S.
• Rock n’ Roll, Pro Football Hall of Fames
• Browns, Cavs & Indians
Cleveland Living
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• Case VOLUME & complexity for BOTH open & endo
• All-star faculty
• Research opportunities
• CCF resources
– Electronic medical records in all hospitals with remote access from
home including imaging
– Library with remote access to hundreds of electronic books and journals
and Ohio Link for unlimited access to books in other libraries in Ohio
• Industry relationships & exposure to new technology
• Ancillary support
• Ultrasound, AV access and venous experience
Strengths & Weaknesses
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Top 10 Rumors About our Program
1. The residents/fellows do not operate!
2. The staff are malignant!
3. The Cleveland Clinic is not academic!
4. Only endo, I won’t learn how to do open surgery!
5. The program is too large!
6. I won’t have a life – all work, no play
7. Too much competition with the Fellows!
8. Too much competition with General Surgery!
9. Too much competition with Cardiology!
10.Cleveland Sucks!
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The Residency
• Program is continuously evolving and growing. It will
be different by the time you arrive
• Commitment to being the world’s premier Vascular
Surgery Department, Residency and Fellowship
programs!
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Questions?
• E-mails of all staff and current residents in your packet!
• Good Luck!!!