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Mount Sinai Medical Center – Dubin Breast Center Breast Surgery Fellowship

The Dubin Breast Center

The Breast Surgical Fellowship at Mount Sinai’s Dubin Breast Center trains one fellow per year in a setting that emphasizes multidisciplinary care and an apprenticeship model of learning.

The Dubin Breast Center is an outpatient facility located within Tisch Cancer Institute of Mount Sinai. The center houses clinical space for medical and surgical oncology, comprehensive breast imaging, an infusion center, and conference space for multidisciplinary meetings. In the immediate vicinity are facilities for MRI imaging, radiation oncology, nuclear medicine, plastic surgery as well as inpatient and ambulatory operating rooms. The Dubin Breast Center has approximately 30,000 patient visits and treats between 300-500 newly diagnosed breast cancer patients per year.

Program Description

Six months will be spent on the breast surgery rotations working one to one with each of our breast surgeons. This apprenticeship model enhances teaching and exposes the fellow to continuity of patient care from diagnosis to surgery to determining adjuvant treatment. Continuity of patient care continues as the fellow rotates through other services and is facilitated by the flexibility of training one fellow per year. The Dubin Center is designed both physically and conceptually to emphasize multidisciplinary care and this defines the fellow’s experience. While on the breast surgery rotations, the fellow will regularly interact with radiologists and pathologists in the context of diagnosis, geneticists in determining risk status and medical and radiation oncologists in planning neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapies. These interdisciplinary relationships will be maintained as the fellow rotates in radiology, pathology, medical oncology, radiation oncology, plastic and reconstructive surgery, genetics, cancer rehabilitation, psychology and social work. The fellow also will engage in community outreach both in East Harlem and other underserved neighborhoods of New York City and will also rotate at Elmhurst Hospital which provides extraordinary breast care to an extremely diverse community of Queens.

The breast surgery fellow is integral to the weekly multidisciplinary breast conference. Working with colleague fellows in breast imaging and pathology, the surgery fellow will present cases and literature reviews and partake in interdisciplinary patient care discussions. Didactic teaching devoted to the fellow includes monthly lectures from faculty in all disciplines, journal clubs and ongoing one on one tutorials.
During the year, the fellow will engage in one or two research projects with the goal of presenting at a national meeting and publishing. We will work with the fellow at the beginning of the year to define such projects and maximize productivity. Recent fellows have presented their work at annual meetings of the Society of Surgical Oncology, the American Society of Breast Surgeons, the Miami Breast Cancer Conference, the National Consortium of Breast Centers and the Society of Black Academic Surgeons.

Eligibility and Applications

Requirements include completion of a general surgery residency and American Board of Surgery eligibility. Applicants must be eligible for medical licensure in the State of New York.

All of the application materials required by Mount Sinai are the same as the SSO application requirements that the applicant uploads to the SSO Website.

Please refer to the SSO website regarding the application deadline, interview timeline and match details

Contact Information:

Fellowship Program Director:Christina Weltz, MD
Address:Mount Sinai Hospital
Breast Surgical Oncology Fellowship Program
One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1148
New York, NY 10029
Email:christina.weltz@mountsinai.org
Fellowship Program Manager:Ayesha Patel
Email:Ayesha.Patel@mountsinai.org
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