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Educational Opportunities & Professional Growth

The fellowship program features the full participation of all nine of the pediatric surgical division’s full-time faculty members. Each of these physicians will contribute greatly to your education. Your training will include operating room and outpatient clinic experience, as well as bedside evaluation of children. You’ll also play a role in the organization of formal teaching conferences, held weekly. Formal rotations will be spent on pediatric urology, PICU, and neonatology during the first 12 months. The last year will be spent entirely on the pediatric surgical service.

Rotations

Your educational rotations during the first year of the fellowship will include:

• The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit — a recently renovated, Level III, 14 single-patient room facility (expandable to 18, if needed).
• Pediatric Urology — recently, we were the first children’s hospital in the Philadelphia and Delaware area to offer the most advanced version of the da Vinci® robotic-assisted surgical system (the da Vinci® Siâ„¢).
• The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

The entire 12 months of the second year of the program is spent on the pediatric surgical service. During this time, you’ll be encouraged to take on more teaching assistant cases in the operating room, and help instruct medical students, general surgery residents, pediatric residents, nurses, and nonclinical staff on a daily basis.

Opportunities for education include:

• Daily walk rounds
• Card rounds
• Attending rounds
• Time spent reviewing films or laboratory studies
• Time in the OR suite before, during and after cases
• Educational conferences
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Expectations

As you progress through the program, we’ll give you increasing levels of freedom and responsibility. Your responsibilities for the educational conferences will be rotated over the 24 months of the program, so that you can get exposure to the breadth of care for pediatric surgical patients.

Your work, as well as the didactic and clinical education elements of the program, will be continuously reviewed by the program director, who will ensure that the program maintains the highest quality — and you get the most benefit.

Current Participants

2024-2026 — Heather Hartman, MD

Alumni

2022-2024 — Jo Cooke-Barber, MD

2020-2022 — Mubina A. Isani, MD

2018-2020 — Allison F. Linden, MD, MPH

2016-2018 — Michael R. Phillips, MD

2014-2016 — Erin A. Teeple, MD

Application Requirements

Deadline: December 31, 2026

Training Begins: August 1, 2028

The Thomas Jefferson University Hospital/91´óÉñ Children’s Hospital, Delaware Pediatric Surgical Fellowship Program (Program Code 4450944001) participates in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP). Completed applications are to be submitted through Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) by mid-December in order for interviews to be scheduled beginning in January.

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2. ERAS-generated curriculum vitae (CV)

3. Medical school transcript

4. Copy of medical school diploma

5. Completion of an approved general surgery residency program

6. Eligibility to take qualifying examination in general surgery

7. Three letters of recommendation, one of which must be from your program director

8. Personal statement

9. ABSITE scores from your surgical residency training

10. United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) board scores

11. List of publications

12. Current Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) certificate

Qualified candidates will be contacted to schedule an interview on specified dates beginning in January. Incomplete applications will not be considered. On the day of the interview, applicants will attend a department conference and will meet individually with faculty and current trainees. The interviews will conclude by mid-afternoon. Specific issues may be addressed with the program coordinator at (302) 651-5999.