Breast Surgery FellowThe Multidisciplinary Breast Fellowship at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey and UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is a one year program for surgical breast Fellows and medical oncology breast Fellows. Fellows spend four weeks on surgical pathology for examination of breast specimens and four weeks in the Women's Imaging Center examining breast imaging studies, including MRI and 570 interventional procedures. For the surgical Fellow, five months are spent on the breast surgery service at CINJ where the emphasis is on the multidisciplinary management of the breast cancer patient. In the clinic, emphasis is given to patient assessment with a variety of minimally invasive techniques such as fine needle aspiration with immediate on-site assessment; diagnostic US and US guided core and vacuum assisted/rotational biopsies. In the operating room, the surgical fellow is the operating surgeon for complex cases such as skin-sparing mastectomy with immediate reconstruction; ultrasound guided partial mastectomy and the placement of partial breast irradiation balloon catheters. The Fellow instructs junior residents for simple procedures such as sentinel node mapping and excisional biopsy. Medical oncology-based Fellows spend two months on breast surgery where they act as assistants at surgery. |