2024-2025 SAGES Certification of Fellowship Training Application-Materials Upload

Thank you for applying to the SAGES Fellowship Certification.

You will have one year – from the end of your fellowship or from Board Certification, whichever comes first – to upload or complete all requirements.

CERTIFICATE REQUIREMENT by July 31, 2025:

**Fellowship certification requires SAGES Active membership, to upgrade from Candidate to Active membership, please click here. Candidate Members can upgrade to Active Membership at a discounted fee of $165 (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 110. 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.

** SAGES encourages all fellows to adopt the SAGES requires applicants to adopt the Advanced GI MIS Fellowship accreditation criteria.

#1 Advanced GI MIS Fellowship:
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).

#2 Comprehensive Flexible Endoscopy Fellowship:
1. The Fellowship must cover the educational content/curriculum for all 10 flexible endoscopy entrustable professional activities (EPAs, see below 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

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.

** Upload copies of FLS, FES and FUSE (ALL required).

Application reviews will take place in November 2025, February 2026 and August 2026. For questions or more information, please email Vanessa Cheung at [email protected]