Description

The Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences at the University of Florida, College of Veterinary Medicine is seeking applicants for an Open-Heart Surgery Training / Fellowship. This fellowship is a two-year position in Open-heart Surgery during which the fellow will receive advanced and intensive training, primarily in surgical correction of mitral valve disease, with a smaller emphasis on surgical correction of other cardiac conditions using open heart surgery under cardiopulmonary bypass.  In conjunction with the fellowship program director, the fellow will have responsibilities of case screening and selection, open heart cardiac surgical techniques, post-operative patient care, and case responsibility including in-hospital management and client communication.  Good communication skills and teamwork are essential characteristics of a fellow in addition to strong surgical skills and medical training.  Successful open-heart surgery cases are a product of multiservice teamwork, and the fellow will be expected to work closely with cardiology, anesthesia, perfusion, and ICU to ensure high quality patient care and programmatic success.  Opportunities to participate in both cardiology and surgery rounds, to collaborate and learn from physicians at the medical center (Shands UF), to contribute to advancement of clinical research, and grow the Open-heart Surgery Program at UF are unique aspects of this program that are additive to the opportunity to gain expertise in this highly specialized surgical technique. The fellow position salary is $69,000 per year. The successful applicant will be hired into an Adjunct Lecturer position.

Requirements

Education Requirements:

DVM or equivalent degree. Preferably, a fellow has completed ACVS or ACVIM registered residency training or is board-certified by the ACVS in small animal surgery or ACVIM in Cardiology.

Program-specific Requirements:

Time allowance: Up to 3 years can be spent completing the program, but the anticipated completion date is 2 years from start of training

40 fellowship in training weeks (5 days/week) spent with the program director (Katsuhiro Matsuura)

4 weeks at human hospital rotating on UF Health Shands Hospital with MDs involved in open-heart (OH) procedures

Publication requirements: A minimum of one retrospective or prospective manuscript or case report submitted to a peer reviewed journal.

A semiannual written review will be provided by the program director

Must present at least one research or case report at national level meeting (ACVIM Forum or ACVS Summit)

20 journal club attendance

Maintenance of an OH case log to include no less than 30 OH cases for submission to the program director at the end of the fellowship.

Journal Club:  20 journal club and/or didactic rounds sessions must be attended by the fellow candidate. JC and rounds can be OH surgical, perfusion related, or cardiology related.

Seminars: A minimum of 3 seminars or rounds must be presented by the fellow candidate.

Caseload: A total of 40 weeks per year will be spent on OH Surgery service. An average of 4–5 open heart surgery cases per month are anticipated, with a minimum anticipated annual caseload of 50 cases.

For full consideration, a current curriculum vitae, letter of intent and names of three individuals willing to write in support of the applicant must be submitted online. The letters of recommendation should be from individuals that can speak to all aspects of a candidate’s abilities based on the above job description. Application materials for job number 537607 must be submitted online at https://explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/537607/adjunct-lecturer-in-openheart-surgery and sent electronically to Dr. Katsuhiro Matsuura (kmatsuura@ufl.edu) and Dr. Darcy Adin (adind@ufl.edu). Email inquiries are welcome. Applications must be submitted by 11:55 p.m. (ET) of the posting end date. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the close date of December 01, 2025.

The anticipated start date of this fellowship is July 15, 2026.

Final candidates will be required to provide official transcript to the hiring department upon hire.  A transcript will not be considered “official” if a designation of “Issued to Student” is visible.  Degrees earned from an education institution outside of the United States are required to be evaluated by a professional credentialing service provider approved by National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES), which can be found at http://www.naces.org/.