Criteria for entry into the Department of Surgery's organ transplant fellowship program is full completion of a general surgery training program. The fellowship at the University of Minnesota consists of four, six-month rotations—donor service, kidney recipient service, liver recipient service, and kidney/pancreas recipient service.
The first six months are spent learning the criteria for donor acceptability (cadaver and living donor), the donor operations, and the care of the living donor following surgery. On the remaining rotations, the fellow receives extensive experience in preoperative care of kidney, liver, kidney/pancreas recipients. 
We have two openings per year for the transplant fellowship program: January 1st and July 1st. All positions are filled through a matching program for transplant fellowships (www.nrmp.org).
If you are interested in being considered for the fellowship, please request an application from Dr. Abhinav Humar.
"Transplantation is the reality of individuals leading a normal existence who otherwise would not be alive. When Jamie was hospitalized last fall to have her spleen removed, her major concern to the doctors and staff was that she be home for Halloween ... being able to get dressed to go out trick-or-treating was very important. The miracle is having the opportunity for her to be healthy—to do those activities that are age-appropriate. That miracle includes the ongoing relationship she has with her friends and 'extended family' at the U of M Hospital who gave her and us the chance to include the word tomorrow in our vocabulary.
We thank the Department of Surgery and all the staff at the University who not only offered us hope but have given vision to all families who face the uncertainty we felt in 1982."
—Charles and Marilyn Fiske of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, whose daughter Jamie received a liver transplant in 1982 at the age of 11 months (quoted in The CUTTING EDGE, the Surgery Department newsletter, April 1990)
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