Training & Curriculum

The Vascular Surgery Fellowship strives to train future leaders in vascular surgery who are adept at performing the full spectrum of open and endovascular procedures.

Fellows can take advantage of all the fellowship has to offer including:

• Easy access to the faculty and other teaching resources
• Ample supervision of fellows
• A wide variety of disease processes and high number of patient encounters
• High-quality teaching in the form of lectures, conferences and individual sessions with faculty
• High-quality facilities with modern equipment, including computers for presentations and internet access, full service medical library and leading-edge hospital facilities
• Opportunities for research
• Opportunities for professional growth
• An average work week with at least one day free of clinical responsibilities and rarely exceeding 80 hours
• An environment that fosters responsibility, learning, teaching and mutual respect
• An organized program that is compliant with the ACGME requirements for Vascular Surgery Fellowship
• A learning environment that cultivates a high level of knowledge regarding fundamental and comprehensive care in the field of vascular surgery
• Learning that occurs in clinical settings involving supervised direct patient care and by scholarly activities such as didactic sessions, review of classic and current literature, research activities and ethics discussions
• An environment that develops the highest quality diagnostic and surgical skills
• Assistance for each fellow in establishing sound, ethical practice habits by providing instruction on proper coding, documentation and guidelines of local or governmental agencies
• Assistance for each fellow in developing respect for the patient as a person, concern for the welfare of the whole patient and family, which is also in concert with the individual styles of each fellow

The Vascular Surgery Fellowship program is to provide quality education in the field of vascular surgery to the individual physician. The faculty is committed to help each fellow become independent and proficient in the management and treatment of all surgical and medical aspects of vascular diseases. Fellows are given ample opportunity to build and enhance their skills through participation and interaction with the faculty, in the care of patients in the clinics, wards, in the operating room and in didactic conferences. At completion of our 2-year training program, it is anticipated that the graduating fellow will be successful in obtaining certification from The American Board of Vascular Surgery and will progress to become leaders and innovators within the field.

The Cedars-Sinai Vascular Research program conducts basic and clinical research with the main goal of improving prevention and care for vascular disease. Our program enables patients to be treated with the newest therapies to treat a variety of vascular diseases. Currently, there are several clinical trials that are open for enrollment to patients with vascular disease, mostly focused on aortic aneurysm.