Inova Fairfax Hospital is a 833-bed regional medical center serving the Washington, D.C. metro area. Inova Fairfax Hospital includes Northern Virginia's only Level 1 trauma center for treating the most critically injured patients with 72,815 emergency department visits, the nation's sixth busiest obstetrics program, a level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and is the region's only hospital to offer the full spectrum of organ transplantation, including heart, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas and bone marrow.

Podiatric Residency Program

A comprehensive fully-integrated, three-year Podiatric Medical & Surgical program (PM&S - 36 Program) located in Northern Virginia/Suburban Washington, DC
Mission of the Program:

* To advance the level of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery via the highest quality of residency training
* Utilize a multi-disciplinary approach within multiple facilities
* To advance the integration of the profession of Podiatric Medicine within the medical community
* To advance the level of foot and ankle care for the public at large

Respiratory Care Internship and Fellowship Program

Internship and Fellowship Information

The 10-month Internship is designed to provide the highly motivated graduate RCP with clinical experiences that will considerably expand their knowledge and skills. Interns will
complete comprehensive rotations through all the critical care areas and have the opportunity to select additional rotations through select areas of their choosing.

The 8-month Fellowship is designed for the practicing RCP who has over one year of post-graduate work experience and is looking to gain additional insight, training, and involvement in selected critical care areas. The Fellowship tracks include either
adult critical care or pediatric/neonatal care.

The critical care focus of the program incorporates clinical and classroom education and is intended to serve as a springboard for professional development and leadership within Inova Health System and the respiratory professional community.
Professional Opportunities Available Through Our Program

* Nine Intensive Care Units (including Level I Trauma, Cardiovascular,
Level III NICU, PICU) and active Emergency Department
* Patient-driven protocols and pathways
* Lung Protective Ventilation Strategies
* State-of-the-art therapies
* Computerized bedside charting
* Bedside diagnostics
* Ground and Air Transport
* Clinical and Classroom education
* Research
* Pulmonary Rehabilitation
* Pulmonary Diagnostics Laboratory

Surgery Residency Program

Our surgical volume is huge. We perform over 35,000 cases a year including almost 1,000 laparoscopic cholecystectomies, 200 thyroid procedures, over 2,000 cardiac surgical procedures, 400 bariatric procedures and more than 500 colon procedures. We also saw 3,300 trauma patients. These numbers give us the capability to educate residents in all aspects of surgery despite a decrease in duty hours. We have hired a cadre of nurse practitioners, physician assistants and house surgeons to maximize the use of duty hours.

Our faculty enjoys teaching. Many of our private surgeons participate in our mentoring program, which brings residents to the private setting and integrates them into an office practice. Our residents get to participate as junior parties with all the advantages of continual care in a private practice.

Our academic credentials continue to grow. As we prepare to become the Northern Campus of VCU/MCV in 2005, we will be seeing our first contingent of third and fourth-year medical students. Presently, we are training two postgraduate fellows - one in trauma/critical care and one in bariatric surgery. We also have two residents from university programs performing their research years with our trauma team. Last year, out faculty contributed to numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals as well as numerous chapters in popular textbooks. A new research method program started this year to help our residents prepare papers for national presentations. Our advanced laparoscopy lab is an excellent facility to practice new technologies with supervision of our laparoscopic faculty. We're proud that one of our teaching faculty received the resident's teaching award from Georgetown University School of Medicine for the second year in a row.

We are constantly improving. This year saw the promulgation of new regulations to improve the education experience of the residency. As a new program, we have used these as an opportunity to design a program that fits easily into the 80-hour week, the evaluation of six care competencies and the computer age. Generally, our on-call schedule is based on an every fourth night principle without resorting to night float, while our sub-specialties have excellent cross-coverage combining residents rotating in from the surrounding university program supplemented with local surgery from outside the program.

We have a truly heterogeneous faculty. Our staff reflects the varied international population of Northern Virginia through the numerous multilingual subspecialties of both men and women surgeons.

We realize you have debts. With the support of the hospital, we want debt reduction as part of your employment package. We recognize the changes in residents' needs and expectations regarding lifestyle and benefits. We also know some of you will begin families during your training, and therefore the hospital supplies day care on campus. We understand that living 12 miles from Washington, DC, is expensive and want to give you affordable housing. Most of all, we want to train an outstanding group of young surgeons who will be able to leave here and enter any fellowship or general surgical practice with a great education and confidence that there are no deficiencies in their training.

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This article is reported with thanks to INOVA health system.