ArticleSurgical endoscopy2023
What is MIS fellowship? Community and academic program experience.
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introductionMinimally invasive surgery (MIS) fellowship is one of the most popular fellowship programs, but little is known about the individual fellow's clinical experience. Our goal was to determine the differences in case volume and case type in academic and community programs.
methodsA retrospective review of advanced gastrointestinal, MIS, foregut, or bariatric fellowship cases logged into the Fellowship Council directory of fellowships during the 2020 and 2021 academic years included for analysis. The final cohort included 57,324 cases from all fellowship programs, that list data on the Fellowship Council website, including 58 academic programs and 62 community-based programs. All comparisons between groups were completed using Student's t-test.
resultsThe mean number of cases logged during a fellowship year was 477.7 ± 149.9 with similar case numbers in academic and community programs, 462.5 ± 115.0 and 491.9 ± 176.2 respectively (p = 0.28). The mean data is illustrated in Fig. 1. The most common performed cases were in the following categories: bariatric surgery (149.8 ± 86.9 cases), endoscopy (111.1 ± 86.4 cases), hernia (68.0 ± 57.7 cases) and foregut (62.8 ± 37.3 cases). In these case-type categories, no significant differences in case volume were found between academic and community-based MIS fellowship programs. However, community-based programs had significantly more case experience compared to academic programs in all of the less commonly performed case-type categories: appendix 7.8 ± 12.8 vs 4.6 ± 5.1 cases (p = 0.08), colon 16.1 ± 20.7 vs 6.8 ± 11.7 cases (p = 0.003), hepato-pancreatic-biliary 46.9 ± 50.8 vs 32.5 ± 18.5 cases (p = 0.04), peritoneum 11.7 ± 16.0 vs 7.0 ± 7.6 cases (p = 0.04), and small bowel 11.9 ± 9.6 vs 8.8 ± 5.9 cases (p = 0.03).
conclusionMIS fellowship has been a well-established fellowship program under the Fellowship Council guideline. In our study, we aimed to identify the categories of fellowship training and the perspective case volumes in academic vs community setting. We conclude that fellowship training experience is similar in case volumes of commonly performed cases when comparing academic and community programs. However, there is substantial variability in the operative experience among MIS fellowship programs. Further study is necessary to identify the quality of fellowship training experience.
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