2021-2022 SAGES Fellowship Certification – Materials Upload Thank you for applying to the SAGES Fellowship Certification Program. You will have one year – from the end of your fellowship or from Board Certification, whichever comes first – to complete the application process. CERTIFICATE REQUIREMENT by July 31, 2023: **Fellowship certification requires SAGES Active membership, to upgrade from Candidate to Active membership, please click here. When upgrading from Candidate to Active, First Year Surgeons will receive a discounted fee of $150 (as a First Year Surgeon) when you complete on your training. This discount applies to an upgrade only and is not available to first time applicants to Active SAGES Membership. Not yet a SAGES Member? Click here! for Membership Applications or contact our Membership Department at 310-437-0544 ext 119. Members also receive discounted registration for the SAGES Annual Meeting **Fellowship Program Director name and email address. We will invite the Program Director to complete an online survey ** Upload your Fellowship Council Case Log in CSV/Excel format showing minimum case numbers have been met. New Advanced GI MIS Criteria: SAGES encourages all fellows to adopt the Advanced GI MIS Fellowship: SAGES requires applicants to adopt the Advanced GI MIS Fellowship accreditation criteria. To adhere to the criteria, applicants are expected to obtain 150 Total Complex MIS Cases, with a minimum of the following defined category cases: Foregut (20), Bariatric (25), Inguinal Hernia (10), Ventral Hernia (10), Additional Complex MIS Cases (85). Comprehensive Flexible Endoscopy Fellowship: 1. The Fellowship must cover the educational content/curriculum for all 10 flexible endoscopy entrustable professional activities (EPAs, see attached list) 2. The Fellowship must provide a minimum of 150 flexible endoscopy procedures and meet the following case volume mandates : A. The cases must fall into the domain of at least 5 different procedural based EPAs (this includes Flex Endo EPAs 3-10, as well as the Bariatric EPA “Endoscopic Bariatric Interventions.” B. There must be minimum of 10 cases in each of these 5 EPAs C. There must be a minimum of 100 therapeutic endoscopy cases 3. The fellow must successfully pass the Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery (FES) and the Fundamental Use of Surgical Energy (FUSE) programs prior to completion of the fellowship Flexible Endoscopy EPAs. 01. Sedation and Monitoring of Patients Undergoing Flexible Endoscopy 02. Endoscopy In The Patient With Surgically-Altered GI Tract Anatomy 03. Evaluation and Management of the Patient Requiring Advanced Tissue Resection/Transection/Ablation 04. Evaluation and Management of Obstructing GI Tract Processes 05. Evaluation and Management of GI Tract Bleeding 06. Evaluation and Management of Partial and Full Thickness GI Tract Defects 07. Evaluation and Management of the Patient Requiring Submucosal or Translumenal Endoscopy 08. Evaluation and Management of Patients with Pancreatico-Biliary Diseases 09. Evaluation and Management of a Patient Needing Complex Endoscopic Enteral Access 10. Evaluation and Endoscopic Management of the Patient with Gastroesophageal Reflux 3. Advanced GI MIS and Comprehensive Flexible Endoscopy Fellowship: both #1 & #2 Fellowship cases numbers ** Upload a copy of an abstract submitted to a major meeting during your fellowship with information on where the abstract was submitted. ** Upload a CME certificate or copy of a badge from a major meeting attended in person or virtually during your fellowship. Proof of SAGES meeting registration can count towards this requirement.Proof of SAGES Annual Meeting registration can count towards this requirement. ** Upload copies of FLS, FES and FUSE (ALL required). Application reviews will take place in November 2022, February 2023 and August 2023. For questions or more information, please email Vanessa Cheung at [email protected] First Name* Enter information EXACTLY as they are to appear on the certificateLast Name* Degree(s) Email* Cell Phone*UploadsUpload your Fellowship Council Case Log in CSV/Excel format showing minimum case numbers have been met. We are aware of the impact the pandemic may have on meeting the required case logs. The requirement may change. o New Advanced GI MIS Criteria: SAGES encourages all fellows to adopt the new Advanced GI MIS Fellowship accreditation criteria which the Fellowship Council requires starting this academic year. To adhere to the criteria, applicants are expected to obtain 150 Total Complex MIS Cases, with a minimum of the following defined category cases: Foregut (20), Bariatric (25), Inguinal Hernia (10), Ventral Hernia (10), Additional Complex MIS Cases (85).*Accepted file types: xls, csv, xlsx, Max. file size: 512 MB.The Advanced GI MIS and Comprehensive Flexible Endoscopy Fellowships Criteria This report can be downloaded by the Program Director at the following link and must be attached here. Login to your account at www.fellowshipcaselog.org Click "Manage Fellows and View Individual Logs" Click on the name of the fellow to view Look for "Summary Reports Available" and click on “Grouped by Tertiary”; please note this may take a few minutes to create Click on box labeled “Count of Procedures per Third Level Category. Grouped by Type and Role.” This will open up the report within the web page. Click on the link labeled “Export this report to CSV” Save file to your computer File must be in Excel or CSV formatPlease upload at least one abstract that was submitted to a national or regional meeting during the fellowship with information on where the abstract was submitted*Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, Max. file size: 512 MB.PDF, DOC, DOCX only.Please upload a CME certificate or copy of badge from a major meeting attended in person or virtually during your fellowship. Proof of SAGES Meeting registration can count towards this requirement.*Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, Max. file size: 512 MB.PDF, DOC, DOCX, JPG/JPEG, GIF, or PNG only.Please upload your FLS certificate*Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, Max. file size: 512 MB.PDF, DOC, DOCX, JPG/JPEG, GIF, or PNG only.Please upload your FES certificate*Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, Max. file size: 512 MB.PDF, DOC, DOCX, JPG/JPEG, GIF, or PNG only.Please upload your FUSE certificate.*Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, Max. file size: 512 MB.PDF, DOC, DOCX, JPG/JPEG, GIF, or PNG only.NameThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.