Fellowship Program

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INTRODUCTION

The Division of Surgery at Show Chwan Memorial Hospital and IRCAD offer advanced fellowship minimally invasive surgery (MIS), for a duration of minimum of 3 months.

Fellows can choose a field of interest from the following fields: Hepatobiliary & Pancreas, Colorectal, Endocrine, Bariatric, and Upper Gastrointestinal (UGI).

Inpatient, outpatient, operative, and postoperative management of the entire spectrum of surgical cases is provided including open surgery, minimally invasive surgery, and robotic surgery in the aforementioned subspecialties

In addition, there is guaranteed access to all courses, including all lectures, live & pre-recorded demonstrations, simulations, animal & cadaver work as well as research in image-guided surgery, surgical robotics, surgical education, and NOTES in IRCAD-Taiwan, a leading MIS training center dedicated to education and research.

Most of the time spend will be between Chang Bing Show Chwan Memorial Hospital and IRCAD-Taiwan, which are on the same campus.

Through the courses offered at IRCAD-Taiwan, we offer one of the most advanced laparoscopic surgical services in Taiwan, where advanced pancreatic surgeries, major hepatectomies, esophagectomies, gastrectomies, bariatric surgeries, colorectal cancers are done routinely.

Each fellow will be assigned to one or multiple mentors who will ensure adequate training in clinical experience and research.

We are now offering a new special one-year paid program for fellows who come for a minimum of 1 year. Selection criteria are based on skill, experience, and as well as qualifications in the field. We encourage candidates from all countries to apply.

CONFERENCES

Weekly

Journal meeting, Team meeting, R&D meeting, GS case presentation, GI/GS combined meeting, IRCAD meeting

Monthly

Journal meeting, Team meeting, R&D meeting, GS case presentation, GI/GS combined meeting, IRCAD meetingMortality/Morbidity, Video conference with Tokyo’s Women’s medical Colleges’s Département of Surgery (One of the top departments in Japan)

In addition to the above meetings, there will be educational sessions, including hands-on training in the lab in IRCAD, utilizing dry box, ex-vivo, live animals, or cadaver, surgical video viewing sessions, video editing exercises, and interactive didactic courses.

PROGRAM INFORMATIONS

Basic program Informations

Location : Changhua, Taiwain

Primary Program Site : Chang Bing Show Chan Memorial Hospital

University Affiliation : None

Year of Program Creation : 2016

% Of Clinical Program : 80%

% Of Research Program : 20%

Interaction with Residents : Some cases shared

Is there a General Surgery Residency at the Institution? : Yes

Are there teaching conferences available for the fellow? : Yes

Is there an evaluation tool for fellow by faculty in place? :Yes

Is there an evaluation tool for faculty by fellow in place? : Yes

Facilities

Dry Lab
Wet lab
Library
Administrative Support
Clinical Research
Simulation Lab

CHIEF PERSONNEL

TEACHING FACULTY

HEPATOBILIARY & PANCREATIC SURGERY

Charles Chung-Wei Lin – MD (Changhua)

Dev-Ou Chou – MD (Changhua)

Hon Phin Wong – MD (Changhua)

COLORECTAL SURGERYS

Jing-Jim Ou – MD, MPH

ENDOCRINE SURGERY

James Hurng-Sheng Wu – MD, MPH

HERNIA SURGERY

Wayne Shih-Wei Huang – MD, MPH, PhD

BARIATRIC SURGERY

Michael Chien-Hua Lin – MD

UPPER GI SURGERY

Yueh-Tsung Lee – MD, MPH

Chia-Ying Li – MD (Changhua)

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