ASIA News Bulletin - Spring 2019
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New SCI Medicine Fellowship at SUNY Upstate Medical University
The Syracuse VA Medical center and SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY are pleased to announce the approval of a new one-year, ACGME accredited SCI/D fellowship. The fellowship lasts one year following residency and is a collaborative effort between the VA and the academic medical center. Two fellows per year may be accepted, and the fellow swill be offered the full scope of SCI training.
Fellows will take part in a program structured to place the emphasis on education, and maintain an excellent quality of life over the course of the fellowship, while being exposed to all aspects of SCI care. The fellowship entails working in a role designed to emulate the role of a junior attending supervising a junior and senior resident at the 30-bed SCI/D service at the VA – a unit that cares for acute SCI, neurologic conditions such as ALS and Guillaine-Barre syndrome, inpatient and outpatient ventilator management, advanced wound care inclusive of frequent debridements and amniotic tissue therapy. The fellow will also help manage SCI patients at the academic affiliate and act as an expert resource in SCI consultation, helping to educate the residents as they help perform consults.
In the outpatient clinic the fellow will be exposed to the most advanced musculoskeletal medicine available and be trained in musculoskeletal ultrasound, ultrasound and EMG-guided BOTOX, ultrasound-guided joint injection, trigger points, baclofen pump management, and many other aspects of outpatient SCI care. Pulmonary, research, pediatrics, skin, and bladder months make up the remainder of the outpatient rotations. The fellow will travel to SCI conferences to present the research they are given extensive protected time to pursue over their fellowship, such as the Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals (ASCIP) meeting and the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) meeting.
Please contact program manager Mimi Baker at BakerM@upstate.edu for more information.
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