Goals
The primary focus of this combined orthopaedic and neurosurgical ACGME-accredited fellowship is on education and training. The goal is to ensure that trainees will be well-prepared to begin an academic or private practice spine surgery career with confidence.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) is a Level One Trauma center, a regional referral facility for complex cases, and a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. In this environment, our spine surgery fellow is trained to treat the gamut of adult spinal disorders with confidence. A high volume of complex disorders is seen, including traumatic, congenital, degenerative, neoplastic, iatrogenic, and deformity conditions. This offers the fellow a broad clinical experience.
The training background of our multidepartmental teaching staff is diverse, exposing the fellow to a wide variety of surgical and other interventional techniques. The fellow also has directed experience in the multi-disciplinary Spine Center, inpatient wards, and emergency department.
A reading program, indications conference, and M&M conference augment our Harvard Combined spine journal club and spine fellows lecture series, which are shared between Harvard affiliated teaching hospitals.
The fellowship also offers research opportunities. A monthly meeting brings together spine researchers from all Harvard Combined institutions to provide the fellow with high impact, well directed, collaborative research projects. The fellow must complete one project suitable for publication during the year.
All candidates must have successfully completed and orthopaedic residency and be board-eligible or board-certified. This fellowship is ACGME-accredited.
