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Saint Vincent Health Center is a modern, 469–bed multidisciplinary hospital complex on the shores of Lake Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania. Two residents are accepted for each academic year. The attending staff for the Colon and Rectal Surgery Fellowship consists of four board certified colon and rectal surgeons who work primarily at Saint Vincent Health Center, with secondary activity at Hamot Medical Center.

Surgery volume includes over 300 major abdominal cases (2:1 open:lap), 400 anorectal cases (including transanal endoscopic microsurgery), 100 physiologic studies, and 3000 colonoscopies annually. In addition to surgical cases, the full spectrum of challenges in the diagnosis and management of constipation, incontinence and inflammatory bowel disease is available through the office based component of the residency. The office exposure includes the fundamentals of practice management, coding and billing. The teaching faculty represent the only colorectal specialty practice in northwest Pennsylvania, drawing from a population of over 750,000 from northwest and northcentral Pennsylvania, western New York and northeast Ohio. There is active interest in both prospective as well as retrospective clinically based research with several projects ongoing annually. Each resident is expected to prepare a research paper suitable for presentation to the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons.

Residents alternate in preparing and delivering weekly evidence-based lectures covering the topics in the colorectal curriculum. This serves as the basis for energetic discussion of key points and controversies within the surgical literature. Additionally, journal club, pathology conference, and radiology conference all meet on a monthly basis.

Salary and Benefits (2004–2005)

• Salary: $49,482
• Air fare reimbursement for interview visit: up to $200 per person
• Moving expenses: Reimbursement of out of town moving expenses up to $2,000
• Health and Dental Insurance
  (interns, residents and associates pay a portion of the premium costs)
• Life insurance, long-term disability and malpractice insurance.
• Education: reimbursed for expenses incurred in attending the annual meeting of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, such attendance being a condition of employment. Expenses will be reimbursed to a total of not more than $2,000.
• Free meals while on duty.
• Full laundry services for lab coats.
• Free 24-hour parking available in parking garage.
• Paid time off: 10 working days per year for vacation or travel for interviews for prospective employment.
• An additional 10 days of salaried absence for off–site medical education (courses, symposia, etc.) No fewer than three of these days will be reserved for attendance at the annual meeting of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons.

How to Apply

Applications for the Colon and Rectal Surgery Fellowship are taken through ERAS.

For more information, please call the Medical Education Administrator at 1-800-730-3003, or send us an e-mail.