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Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine FellowshipThe Hyperbaric and Undersea Medicine Fellowship is celebrating its 26th year of training fellows. We have a large and diverse staff, and large patient volumes that offer an extraordinary opportunity for our Fellows. We are ACGME accredited for 5 training positions a year, making us the largest ACGME fellowship in the United States. The Fellowship is a one year in length consisting of primary site responsibilities shared at our West Jefferson Medical Center Hyperbaric Medicine Department and University Medical Center- a Level One Trauma Center in the heart of New Orleans. LSU UHM UPDATES:
The LSU/ UMC Hyperbaric Medicine Clinic, located at2000 Canal Street New Orleans, Louisiana 70112
LSU UNDERSEA & HYPERBARIC MEDICINE FELLOWSHIPOur Fellowship is a diverse, multi-faceted, comprehensive training program in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine that consists of sound clinical, didactic, and research components. We were granted ACGME Accreditation in 2007 for FIVE Fellowship Positions beginning in the 2008 academic year. This represents the largest number of fellowship positions and largest accredited hyperbaric medicine fellowship in the United States. The strength of the program lies in the combination of expert faculty, exceptional clinical sites, a large volume of patients that span the range of accepted, and experimental indications, and ample research opportunities. Our faculty consists of some of the most accomplished physicians in hyperbaric medicine. The fellowship curriculum is comprehensive didactically and clinically, and covers all of the required Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine specialty topics. Fellows advance their clinical responsibility through informal and formal feedback mechanisms as they rotate through 10 clinical months that include primary and affiliated training sites as well as diving medicine rotations. Addtionally, the Hyperbaric Fellowship includes a research rotation where fellows work on a project of their choosing. They are exposed to both acute and chronic conditions and simultaneously teach residents, interns, medical students, and diver medics. Fellows maintain their primary skills through employment in their primary specialty. Each fellow operates in a scholarly environment through direct weekly interactions with the faculty who are actively engaged in basic science and clinical research. Research and research methodologies are discussed through conferences, literature reviews, and interaction with the Ph.D researchers at the Baromedical Research Institute. By the end of the fellowship, each fellow completes a research project that is presented at a regional or national meeting.
Dr. Gregory Shamitko, MD (2016-2017 LSUHSC Hyperbaric Fellow)
Dr. Micah Siegel, MD ( 2016-2017 LSUHSC Hyperbaric Fellow)
Dr. Brett Kathmann, MD ( 2016-2017 LSUHSC Hyperbaric Fellow) The combination of the two training sites with the Baromedical Research Institute, the mix of patients, access to the sport and commercial diving communities in the Gulf of Mexico, a diverse faculty with extensive diving and hyperbaric medicine experience, and active research make this Louisiana State University program extremely strong and diversified. The 100% success rate of our Fellows with the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Boards is testament to the strength of our program. The program is currently accepting applications - We hope you'll join us!! |