Education

Minimally Invasive Gastrointestinal Surgery Fellowship

A Fellowship Council Accredited Program

Program Contacts

Program Director

Education Manager

The Department of Surgery provides advanced training in minimally invasive gastrointestinal surgery services, specializing in the areas of foregut, bariatric surgery, and hernia, through a Fellowship Council accredited Minimally Invasive Gastrointestinal Surgery Fellowship program.

Yalini Vigneswaran, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery

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The University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) has a long tradition of training expert surgeons across many specialties, and we are proud to offer this new opportunity to tomorrow's leaders in the field. Our Fellowship in Minimally Invasive Gastrointestinal Surgery began in 2023. Our campus has 575 beds spread across an adult and a children’s hospital, 28 operating rooms, 22 dedicated ICU beds, an adjacent medical library, and a 525,000 square foot outpatient building that is linked to both the adult and the pediatric hospitals.

The program is 12 months in duration and includes advanced experiences for trainees’ appropriate for their degree of experience, year (s) of training, and record of achieving competencies appropriate for their year(s) of training. Curriculum is designed by the program director with input from section faculty. Training takes place at the University of Chicago Medicine.

The goals of our program are aligned with the ACGME competencies for fellow education demonstrating increased expertise in all aspects of patient care, medical knowledge; practice-based learning and improvement, interpersonal communication skills, systems-based practice, and professionalism.

The non-ACGME-accredited Minimally Invasive Gastrointestinal Surgery fellowship program at the University of Chicago allows one fellow position to be filled each year. Candidate trainees must have completed an RRC-approved General Surgery Residency and have the ability to be permanently licensed in the state of Illinois. The fellow must be Board-Certified or in the examination process by the American Board of Surgery (i.e., “board eligible”).

We are not currently accepting applications for review. Please contact our program coordinator for more information on future opportunities.

UCM is an equal opportunity employer. UCM evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, civil union status, parental status, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

We are currently not accepting applications for review. Please contact our program coordinator for more information on future opportunities.

Applicants are invited for virtual interviews on a competitive basis, and the evaluation of applicant interviews and credentials are completed by the program’s faculty.

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For more information about Graduate Medical Education here at University of Chicago, please see the UChicago Medicine GME website. Resources available for review include the Graduate Medical Education Handbook, Resident/Fellow Contracts, Stipends, and Compensation information.

Yalini Vigneswaran, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery

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Mustafa Hussain, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery

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Vivek N. Prachand, MD

Professor of Surgery
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