Rhinology Fellowship

Rhinology Fellowship at the Maryland Nose & Sinus Center of Union Memorial Hospital (Baltimore)

The aim of the fellowship is to offer a high-quality one-year subspecialty training program in Rhinology. The fellowship’s director is Dr Alan Shikani, chief of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Union memorial Hospital and the Good Samaritan Hospital. The fellowship experience will include exposure to all aspects of medical and surgical rhinology and related disciplines, in adults and children, including endoscopic sinus surgery, nasal allergy, treatment of olfactory disorders, functional nasal surgery & treatment of nasal obstruction, cosmetic nasal surgery, approaches to the pituitary, and removal of paranasal sinus neoplasms.

The fellowship also provides opportunities for clinical research in Rhinology. At the present time, our research program is focused topical therapy for chronic rhinosinusitis (Gel-Rhinotopic therapy), balloon sinuplasty and chitosan treatment for recalcitrant epistaxis.

Description

A. One fellow per year for one year, with a tentative start date of July 15 of each year.
B. Applicants must have completed residency training in otolaryngology
C. Responsible teaching faculty: Alan H. Shikani MD, FACS, Chief, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Union Memorial Hospital, and Chief of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore.
D. The fellow will share the schedule of the full staff to whom he/she is assigned. He will be in the operating room at least two days per week and in the clinic the remaining days. The fellow will share attending call in the rotation of the staff and will participate in supervision and teaching of residents and medical students at the Union Memorial Hospital and Good Samaritan Hospital.
E. The fellow’s training will be focused on symptoms or diseases referable to the nose and paranasal sinuses, although there will also be the opportunity for exposure to a broad variety of ENT diseases.
F. The fellow’s rotations will cover two large MedStar institutions in Baltimore: the Union Memorial Hospital and the Good Samaritan Hospital. Both are teaching institutions with a residency program in general surgery and internal medicine.
G. There will be two weeks vacation per year and one additional week for an educational meeting. Salary and benefits will be commensurate with the number of years of prior training in otolaryngology (our current fellow came at a PGY6 level).
H. The fellow will be encouraged and will have the opportunity to:

Attend the Johns Hopkins Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery department grand rounds, and the Greater Baltimore Medical Center Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery department grand rounds, at least twice per month (including all conferences where lesions of the nose, sinuses, and/or anterior skull base are presented). Also attend the tumor board meetings of the Union Memorial and Good Samaritan Hospitals whenever ENT cases are discussed.
Submit at least one abstract to a major national meeting each year.
Submit at least one paper to a major journal on research generated during his/her training.

I. Applications are accepted any time within the Academic year that precedes the beginning of the fellowship on August 1 of the subsequent year. Interviews and recommendations are required and for international candidates the interview may be scheduled during the fall American Rhinology Society Meeting.

The fellow’s responsibility is to attend the ENT clinic at least three days per week, where he/she will do, under the supervision of the ENT attending staff, thorough evaluation and complete examination of patients, perform minor office procedures (including nasal endoscopy, laryngoscopy, nasal biopsy, etc), provide treatment and appropriate follow up, as indicated and under supervision of the attending physician.