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my name is alfie carbonell
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i'm the vice chair of academics for the
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department of surgery here at prisma
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health and also serve as the
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fellowship program director for the
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minimally invasive surgery fellowship
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i think our program is uh is is special
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and
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compares well to others just because we
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have a
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high surgical volume one of the things
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that's important when candidates are
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looking at programs
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is to you know clearly research the area
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look at the surgical volumes and the
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case mix that
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fellowships offer because there are a
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lot of fellowships
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and many of them are different we have
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two fellows a year that
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spend time between bariatrics as well as
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minimally invasive surgery and get a an
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incredible exposure
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to four gut surgery complex abdominal
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wall reconstruction
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and endocrine surgery as well and i
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think they get an immense amount of
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mentorship as well
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from real leaders in the clinical field
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in each of those disciplines we have
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eight surgical faculty in our minimally
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invasive
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surgery division that help train the
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residents and fellows
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and all of us have our own uh
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unique interests and and specialties
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i've really enjoyed to see
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the success that our fellows have had
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professionally and clinically once they
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leave our program some have gone into
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private practice
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and enjoyed a lot of success uh with
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that
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and many have gone on to academic
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practices as well
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it's been it's been immense to just
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watch them flourish
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after coming here with you know basic
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set of general surgery skills
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uh learning what we do we impart that
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knowledge seeing them present on the
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national stage
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uh their academic work and then going
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out into clinical practice and being
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being incredibly successful
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my name is wes love and i'm currently
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one of the minimally invasive surgery
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fellows here i had the unique
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opportunity to also be a resident here
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for the previous five years in general
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surgery the the cohesive nature of
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at least in department of surgery as a
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whole is um
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it's it's priceless this is the the best
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training i've encountered and i want to
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work with these guys these are the type
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of people even if they weren't and they
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are but even if they weren't
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the best at what they do in the field
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it's just nice to get up in the morning
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and go i'm going to go work with you
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know dr carbene or dr warren
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it's going to be a great day quality
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life in greenville and the city of
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greenville itself
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was very helpful in factoring into the
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decision walking through downtown
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walking through all the stuff the house
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we ended up buying in a subdivision
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right on the swamp rabbit trail i mean
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it was
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just so we couldn't wait to move up here
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because it was such an exciting area
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to live in and i can i mean you
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certainly work a lot in residency and
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fellowship but when you have free time
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there's always something
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interesting to do in fellowship there is
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a tremendous amount of autonomy at the
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beginning it's almost a scary amount of
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autonomy i mean they're there they're
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with you the whole case but it
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you know they'll let you struggle a
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little bit and it has made the
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difference in me graduating feeling
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totally comfortable to be on my own as
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opposed to
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you know the alternative being extremely
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nervous it's difficult right then and
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you're sweating it but when you look
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back you're like yeah we did a good job
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with it like that was a satisfying
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outcome
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the ability to see a problem and then in
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less than a month not only is it better
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but the patient's quality of life has
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just
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improved at a geometric rate i mean
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there's no you can't put a number on on
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how satisfying and fulfilling that is
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these guys are at the cutting edge of
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their field they're doing stuff that
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nobody in this sector of the country is
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doing and more importantly they are
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incredible to work with
