Interviews from the 34th Clinical Meeting of the AAGL Advancing Minimally Invasive Gynecology Worldwide held November 2005 in Chicago, IL, USA
Fellowship Opportunities of the AAGL and the ASRM
Ronald Levine, MD, Louisville, KY
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I am Dr. Ronald Levine. I am a past president of AAGL and I am also a
past member of the board of AAGL, but I am speaking primarily as one of
the sites for the Fellowship for Advanced Gynecologic Endoscopy that is
sponsored by both the AAGL and the SRS, an arm of the ASRM.
The reason I think it is necessary for everyone to know about our
particular fellowships is because we now have 13 fellowships in advanced
gynecologic endoscopy around the United States. Four of these centres
are primarily academic, but the others are all advanced centres for a
one-year fellowship in advanced laparoscopic surgery and advanced
hysteroscopic surgery. The fellowships change from site to site: some
have more stress on your gynecological types of surgeries, others have
more stress on other types of procedures. But generally they are
advanced procedures and, at the end of this one year, some fellowships
are continuing on for an additional year. We now presently have 13
sites. This year, we had 47 applicants for these 13 positions. This is
becoming a very, very sought after fellowship. We hope to continue this
fellowship in an even stronger position and hopefully someday to even
have it considered as almost a sub-specialty.
Many of our graduates of these programs are going on into academic
positions. The graduates of our old program at the University of
Louisville have gone on to work at the University of USC in California,
the University of Toronto in Canada. We have people staying on at the
University of Louisville in academic positions. So I think it is
important for the people and physicians around the country to know about
this particular fellowship of which we are very proud for this
association between AAGL and the Society of Reproductive Medicine. Thank
you.