Laparoscopic fellows at Mount Sinai participate in a broad spectrum of minimally invasive procedures. Every fellow rotates through three different clinical services, each one emphasizing a different aspect of minimally invasive surgery.
Gastrointestinal Surgery Rotation
Fellows join one of the busiest laparoscopic foregut surgery groups on the East Coast, scrubbing on a large number of diverse laparoscopic procedures:
- Nissen and Toupet fundoplications
- paraesophageal hernia repairs
- Heller myotomies
- gastroesophageal resections
- small bowel resections and bypasses
- partial and subtotal colectomies
- laparoscopic procedures for Crohn’s disease
Bariatric Surgery Rotation
Fellows learn advanced dissection and anastomotic techniques. Preoperative evaluation and postoperative followup are also emphasized. Laparoscopic procedures include:
- gastric bypass
- biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch
- adjustable gastric band
- two-stage approaches to supermorbid obesity
- revisional bariatric surgery (laparoscopic and open)
Transplant/General Surgery Rotation
Fellows scrub on 2 or more laparoscopic donor nephrectomies each week, learning both laparoscopic and hand-assisted technique. Fellows also participate in a broad spectrum of laparoscopic general surgery procedures including inguinal hernia repair, ventral hernia repair and biliary surgery.
