Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship
Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU)Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship
OHSU's traditionally formatted two-year Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship educational program is designed to emphasize the cooperation of cardiothoracic surgeons with other primary and specialty physicians to diagnose and treat lifelong disease states. This multidisciplinary team functions within a health care system toward economic and long-term outcome goals.
Leadership development is deemed to be one of the unique and important missions of our program. We believe surgical leadership is defined by the ability to guide and work with multidisciplinary (interdisciplinary) teams. We teach this process of leadership development. Residents leave this program with the tools for lifelong learning and growth as a person, as a surgeon and as a collaborator in the interdisciplinary system of health care delivery. Residents are part of the process. As they develop ideas that lead to improvements, they are encouraged to voice them (they attend the division faculty meetings) and good suggestions are implemented.
Our faculty are outstanding and recipients of multiple awards and recognition, including the OHSU Department of Surgery Marquam Hill Teaching Award and the OHSU Cardiothoracic Surgery Teaching Award.
Our program has frequent porcine heart, lung, and esophageal simulation events in our on-site surgery lab, VirtuOHSU.
We send our incoming fellows to TSDA Boot Camp.
Program details
To qualify for a position in OHSU's Cardiothoracic Surgery program, applicants must have completed a residency in General Surgery. Applicants must ensure they meet all program prerequisites and institutional policies regarding eligibility for appointment prior to ranking a program through the NRMP. Candidates are selected through ERAS.
Applicants must register with both:
Weekly clinical schedules include:
- General Thoracic Surgery clinic on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
- Interventional Cardiology/Cardiac Surgery Cath Lab on Thursdays
- Multidisciplinary Lung Clinic and Conference on Fridays
Weekly patient conferences include:
- VA Lung Tumor Board on Mondays
- OHSU Surgery M&M Conferences on Mondays
- OHSU Cardiothoracic Surgery M&M Conferences (2nd Mondays)
- Cardiology Multidisciplinary Conference on Tuesdays
- Esophageal Care Conference on Wednesdays
- Pulmonary Radiology Conference on Wednesdays
- Multidisciplinary Lung Conference on Fridays
- Interventional Cardiology/Cardiac Cath Conference on Thursdays
- VA Multidisciplinary Cardiac Conference on Thursdays
Weekly curriculum reviews:
- Congenital Cardiac Surgery on Tuesdays
- Adult Cardiac Surgery on Wednesdays
- General Thoracic Surgery on Fridays
There are no outside rotations or research year in this fellowship. Fellows are expected to select, research and present a systems-based clinical project at Surgery Grand Rounds in June of their 2nd year.
Salary
The salary levels for residents/fellows for the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 academic years are listed below. The biweekly salary is dependent upon the level of postgraduate training the resident/fellow has completed within the United States.
GME Resident and Fellow Salaries for the 2025-2026 Fiscal Year
GME Resident and Fellow Salaries for the 2026-2027 Fiscal Year
Determination of Pay Levels for ACGME-Accredited Programs
Incoming ACGME-Accredited Residents and Fellows
Incoming residents/fellows will be established with a Program Training Year (PTY) level and Pay Level, meeting minimum requirements to start the program. To establish pay equity among peers performing the same work at the same training level within their program, previous additional training years (beyond the minimum required by boards and accreditation requirements) will not count toward determination of salary. Residents/fellows who are incoming from one OHSU training program to another OHSU training program will be given a salary no less than one pay level below their previous appointment.
Program Transfers
Internal and external program transfers would be treated as any incoming residents/fellows outlined above. Any credit received from their previous program which is transferable and applied for advance placement in their new program, would establish their PTY level and pay level.
Surgery Research Year
A current General Surgery resident may pause residency to participate in 1-3 years of internal or external research years. We do not offer a pay or training level increase for research years regardless of whether they are internal or external.
Contact us
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Mail Code L353
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park
Portland, OR 97239-3098
Phone: 503 494-4196
Fax: 503 494-7829