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i'm chris carson
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i'm the program director for the
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vascular surgery fellowship here at
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prisma health upstate
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we like to say in greenville that we
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have a very blue-collar vascular surgery
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fellowship in that we see the routine
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things
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that patients present with in any
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practice in the united states
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we see a lot of everyday pathologies
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such as
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end-stage renal disease diabetes
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we also see complex pathology infected
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aortas
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complex aortic aneurysms
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difficult lower extremity
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revascularizations so
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one of the things that i'm really proud
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of in our fellowship is that we provide
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the day in and day out training that
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that fellows will be able to leave here
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with
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and be comfortable practicing in any
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setting
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the fellows will get concentrated time
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on an endovascular service
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on an open service and on an
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office-based service
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that allows them to get repetition in
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the skills that they're trying to
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acquire whether that's
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wire catheter skills open operative
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repetition or even in the office where
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they're learning to read vascular labs
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or learning vein pathology and how to
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perform
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vein procedures in the office prisma
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health is a fantastic place to work
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we have very approachable attendings we
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have fellows that enjoy themselves while
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they're here that learn an awful lot
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and i think there are very few programs
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in the united states that give you the
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breadth
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of experience that we do feel very proud
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of the fellowship that we have here
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and have been very fortunate to
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participate in the education of all the
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fellows and the general surgery
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residents
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over the last 19 years
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my name is uh joseph tengen i'm with the
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vascular surgery fellowship program here
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i'm a first year
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vascular surgery fellow as soon as i
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started day one on the endovascular
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rotation i'm already very hands-on with
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with all of the procedures doing a
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portion of them
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solo doing a portion of them with some
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supervision and then doing the more
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complex procedures
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with direct help with the attendees but
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once you build that level of trust in
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the first few cases
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they really let you let you get heavily
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involved and do a lot of the cases
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yourself which has been great
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the operative experience for the
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fellowship is amazing
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working with the attendees they really
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treat you like
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a junior attending or a junior partner
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so the collegiality is
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is wonderful the experience with them
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have been great
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operatively and just in our educational
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conferences that we have
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very regularly we have a high volume of
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cases a high volume of
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complexity there's really no shortage of
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procedures or
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or patient care to go around and the
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fellows main goal
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is operative planning and experience
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and so we're very involved in the the
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planning of operative
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procedures and as well as the carrying
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those out
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and so not as much time is spent on
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paperwork social work and things like
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that
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is that happens in residency it's a very
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heavy
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operative surgical planning type of type
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experience for fellowship
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i'm jack neal i'm a second year vascular
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surgery fellow
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and when you start out you're you
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you have less autonomy and as you become
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more comfortable with the operations
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the autonomy has has progressed
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appropriately and i've been very happy
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with the autonomy that i've been given
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here
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the number of cases that we are able to
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do has been
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has been the best part so far of uh
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of the fellowship program i think i will
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remember most about my time
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the the amazing complex operations that
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we got to do
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particularly those that were done in an
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emergent fashion
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everyone around here just has a very
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good positive attitude
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it's a very friendly environment while
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taking care of sick patients at the end
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of the day is the most important thing
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we get it done with collegiality and we
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have fun doing it
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