Overview
A flexible ACGME fellowship developing expert-level skills in cardiac and thoracic surgical anesthesia, with protected TEE time toward NBE Advanced PTEeXAM certification and a CTICU rotation in a 27-bed unit.
The programme
- Focus
- Adult cardiothoracic anaesthesia
- Training type
- Clinical Fellowship
- Duration
- 13 four-week blocks (one year)
- Start
- Institution policyWashU GME appointment (stipend) year runs 1 July – 30 June
- Positions
- Not stated on official page
- Accreditation
- ACGME-accredited
- Department
- Department of Anesthesiology, WashU Medicine (Barnes-Jewish Hospital / St. Louis Children's Hospital)
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Not stated on official page
- International applicants
- Institution policyInternational graduates accepted via ECFMG J-1 sponsorship (H-1B at programme discretion); Missouri temporary licence requires a permanent ECFMG certificate
- Visa support
- Institution policyWashU GME Consortium supports ECFMG J-1 visas (managed by institutional Training Program Liaisons); H-1B may be supported at department/programme discretion; WashU holds ACGME Non-Standard Training recognition so non-accredited fellowships can host J-1 trainees
- Licence requirement
- Institution policy (Missouri Board of Registration for the Healing Arts): residents and fellows in approved Missouri training programmes must hold a Missouri temporary licence (renewed annually; applied for via the hospital) before practising; IMGs need a permanent ECFMG certificate
How to apply
- Deadline
- Not stated on official page
- Application method
- SF Match (Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists)
Funding
- Funding
- Stipend per WashU GME scale (e.g. PGY5 $84,439); discretionary fund for books and training expenses