Fellowship Program
To Our Potential Fellowship Candidates:
We believe the formal education of a Hand Surgeon is a daunting task; the field is enormous, ranging from the fingertips, across the wrist, elbow, and shoulder joints, to the brachial plexus, bringing together all aspects of orthopaedic, neuro-and plastic surgery in this single, extremely important area of the body. We believe that the experience a Fellow will receive during the very short 12-month training period is best supplied through a multi-disciplinary approach, involving a healthy number of committed educators with varying specialty interests and expertise. The importance of this one year of Fellowship training cannot be overstated.
We believe strongly the best post-operative training in Hand Surgery is provided from a private practice base. Each Hand Fellow begins his/her year of post-graduate training not as PGY-6 resident, but as an associate of Hand Surgery Associates of Indiana, Inc. – our umbrella corporation. As far as our patients, support staff, and the community-at-large are concerned, Hand Surgery Associates of Indiana, Inc., consists of 17 doctors working together to take care of our very large and diverse patient population.
The Fellowship experience at The Indiana Hand Center is contemporary. Not only is every Fellow didactically instructed on the fine nuances of practical, clinical Hand Surgery and rehabilitation, but each is taught the spectrum of contemporary issues with which he/she must deal after completing the Fellowship and joining an institutional or private Hand Surgery practice. Extensive lectures and experience, in addition to the spectrum of clinical responsibility our Fellows have in helping manage the complexities of our busy hand practice, make our graduating Hand Fellows some of the best-prepared Hand Surgeons in the United States.
Sincerely, The Physicians of The Indiana Hand Center
The Following Information Will Provide You With Details About Our Fellowship Program.
For more than 35 years, The Indiana Hand Center has been committed to an academic tradition of providing the highest quality post-graduate Fellowship education to surgeons from around the entire United States who have completed formal orthopaedic, plastic, or general surgical training. These surgeons have elected to delay their own practice for an additional year, in order to expose themselves to intense training in the field of hand and upper extremity surgery.
Of the many applicants who apply each year for our 12-month Fellowship positions, we select six to train. We have educated 169 post-graduate surgeons, each of whom is board-eligible when he or she begins the year with us. These young men and women have gone on after the completion of their Fellowship with us to disperse themselves nationwide throughout the full spectrum of academic and private practice.
During the program, each Fellow completes a 2-3 month rotation with each Indiana Hand Center orthopedic surgeon. They practice in The Indiana Hand Center’s state-of-the-art 40,000 square-foot surgery center that includes:
- Three operating room suites
- Two procedure rooms
- Nerve block room
- Emergency room intake
- 18 exam rooms
- X-ray and EMG
- Occupational therapy department
- Surgery videotaping suite
The Fellows also collaborate individually with one of our surgeons to conduct an upper extremity surgery research project. Many of these projects have been published in peer-reviewed literature. Our Fellows present their research findings along with other hand surgery Fellows from Louisville and Cincinnati programs at our Tri-State Upper Extremity Meeting.
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