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A message from the Fellowship Director

January 12, 2021
  • 00:00Hi, my name is Anthony Bucaram and I've been
  • 00:06in yet for almost three years now.
  • 00:11My first year, actually I was here
  • 00:14as a fellow and there are many
  • 00:16reasons that made me big deal as my
  • 00:19number one choice for fellowship.
  • 00:21One of them is the fact that
  • 00:23it's a very big center that you
  • 00:26get to see a lot of diseases.
  • 00:28Lot of brain tumors.
  • 00:30You can easily read the
  • 00:31567 cases of glioblastoma.
  • 00:33Today we have a lot of brain metastasis,
  • 00:36cases treated brain metastasis
  • 00:37with gamma knife.
  • 00:38It's actually a very big Center for that.
  • 00:41And you will become an expert
  • 00:44in that as well.
  • 00:45We have a big neurology section
  • 00:47that sends us patient for all
  • 00:50kind of neurological diseases.
  • 00:51You become really well at
  • 00:53like seizure evaluation.
  • 00:54All kind of neurological
  • 00:56processes that you can think of.
  • 00:58We have a lot of pediatric
  • 01:01brain Mris to read as well.
  • 01:03And also you would be very
  • 01:06comfortable reading pediatric MRI's.
  • 01:07At the end of your fellow ship,
  • 01:10it can be sometimes tricky and
  • 01:12challenging pediatric Mris,
  • 01:13but hopefully at the end of this year of
  • 01:16fellowship you'll become really good at them.
  • 01:18We also have a very solid header.
  • 01:21Next section you see a lot of
  • 01:23tumors in the head and neck area,
  • 01:25and you become.
  • 01:27At the end of the Fellowship,
  • 01:29an expert or and good at it,
  • 01:32we involve the following the tumor board,
  • 01:34the head and neck tumor board so they can.
  • 01:37They can present at the neck cases.
  • 01:40They can learn more about them.
  • 01:42They can learn about the grading and
  • 01:44truly at the end of the fellowship,
  • 01:47then like will become like an
  • 01:49easy topic for the fellows.
  • 01:51We also have a very stronger procedure
  • 01:53service that does lumbar puncture
  • 01:55myelogram epidural blood patches.
  • 01:57City guided biopsies of the
  • 01:59spine with city guided biopsy's
  • 02:02of the head and neck area.
  • 02:04When you become comfortable
  • 02:05doing like biopsies and all
  • 02:07these like Lightner procedures,
  • 02:09at the end of the Fellowship
  • 02:11an one very important thing to
  • 02:13mention about our fellowship.
  • 02:14An hour Department is the grade,
  • 02:17collegial atmosphere.
  • 02:17Truly,
  • 02:18it's like it's a blessing to be working
  • 02:22in this place with these people.
  • 02:24Like with the attendings and fellows,
  • 02:27everybody is super nice.
  • 02:29Everybody care about the fellow education.
  • 02:31Like from my fellowship I never
  • 02:33had issues with with other people.
  • 02:35It's really great to work with everybody.
  • 02:38Everybody wants wants to help
  • 02:40everybody will give you their
  • 02:42opinion on cases everybody is like
  • 02:44open to teaching and they wanted
  • 02:46to teach and it was an amazing
  • 02:48experience for me as a fellow.
  • 02:51Teaching wise and I would go happy happily
  • 02:53to work with these great attendings.
  • 02:56And when they offered me to stay as
  • 02:58an attending I immediately said yes.
  • 03:01I guess because I knew what
  • 03:03I was signing up for.
  • 03:05I will be working with amazing
  • 03:07and wonderful people.
  • 03:08Everybody has his own expertise in
  • 03:10something and this I think will be
  • 03:13very precious for you and your fellow
  • 03:15ship. You will have experts and
  • 03:17seizures you have expert in brain
  • 03:20tumors and head and neck tumors.
  • 03:22Everybody has his own like niche
  • 03:24that they will make you really
  • 03:26good at and teach you all the
  • 03:28ends and outs of their expertise.
  • 03:31And I think this is like really great.
  • 03:34We're like 14 attendings
  • 03:35an everybody will give you.
  • 03:37An additional additional package at the
  • 03:40end of the Fellowship and additional
  • 03:42push to be like to learn from their
  • 03:45expertise and go and read cases
  • 03:47with a lot of comfort and with a lot
  • 03:50of expertise as a new radiologist.
  • 03:53So essentially I mean I can talk all
  • 03:56day about how great this program is,
  • 03:59an how about how great this year
  • 04:01will be if you come on do your new
  • 04:05radiology fellowship at our place.
  • 04:07I'm sure we will have the opportunity
  • 04:09to talk more during the interview.
  • 04:11If you end up applying to our program,
  • 04:13and I can tell you more about
  • 04:15how great it is to come
  • 04:17and train at here.