We use cookies and other tools to enhance your experience on our website and to analyze our web traffic. For more information about these cookies and the data collected, please refer to our Privacy Policy. The Head and Neck Fellowship program at Mass Eye and Ear provides advanced clinical training in head and neck oncology, microvascular free flap, and pedicled reconstruction, advanced skull base surgery, transoral robotic surgery, and thyroid and parathyroid surgery.
In conjunction with the Mass General Cancer Center, our fellows receive comprehensive multidisciplinary training in the management of patients with advanced head and neck cancer.
Our fellows are given the unique opportunity for close interaction with national leaders in the fields of radiology, pathology, and speech and swallow therapy, while also collaborating efforts with Mass General radiation and medical oncology, neurosurgery, thoracic surgery, and surgical oncology. They assist with the teaching of residents in ablative head and neck surgical procedures. They receive extensive training in free flap and pedicled reconstruction, skull base surgery, and transoral robotic surgery.
They are expected to participate in tumor board, multidisciplinary clinic, resident teaching rounds, and specialty tumor board conferences. Fellows play an integral role on our head and neck service. They are expected to transition to junior faculty level over the course of the year with increased autonomy and independence in managing complex head and neck cancer patients both in and out of the operating room. Fellows typically spend four days in the operating room and one day in clinic each week.
Fellows are expected to attend multidisciplinary tumor conferences and be available to manage urgent patient care issues three weekends per month. Appropriate supervision in and out of the operating room is provided at all times. Increased autonomy is the expectation with comfort being achieved in managing the breadth of head and neck oncologic surgery and reconstruction.
