Tulsa Surgical Arts offers a General Cosmetic Surgery Fellowship Program, which includes a high volume of all types of cosmetic breast surgery, major body contouring, liposuction, and major facial cosmetic surgery procedures of all types. The average Training Fellow is directly involved in over 1000 surgical procedures over the course of the program. The fellowship does not include hair transplants but will allow specific time for this training if desired by fellow at another location.

The Training Fellows are involved with all aspects of a cosmetic surgery practice and patient care, including consultation, pre-op, marking, surgery, post-operative follow up, treatment of complications, and practice management. There is daily instruction and teaching with most patients, and the typical surgical case log is an average of 2-3 patients under general anesthesia for major surgery everyday Monday through Thursday.  Other faculty surgeons are also performing cosmetic surgery in the 2nd main OR most days of the week including some Fridays. Each of the 2 Training Fellows is welcome to scrub in with other staff anytime. Most of the time one Training Fellow is in each OR but occasionally both are scrubbed in together if only one OR is in session. Training Fellows are taken on July 1 and January 1 so that one Training Fellow always has a 6-month seniority their last 6 months of the full year fellowship.  A Medical Spa (Bella Roma Med Spa) is physically joined to the facility of Tulsa Surgical Arts and includes numerous injectors, lymphatic massage personnel, aestheticians, hormones replacement and weight loss, as well as micropigmentation and eyelash placement. The Training Fellows will be involved with staff meetings and business management for the medical spa as well as the cosmetic surgery center.

Didactic lectures are part of the fellowship in addition to daily one on one instruction both in and out of the ORs. Lectures are also required to be given by each Training Fellow during the annual live surgery workshops. Oral questioning and instruction are given throughout the year. A reading list and written guidelines will be sent to the Training Fellow who accepts the position.

The main location is in a COE (Center of Excellence) accredited facility in south Tulsa. Training Fellows have an office with a library and individual computers for personal use and logging cases. An overnight patient guest suite is on-site, and there is a 45-seat theater for workshops room on site. Additional faculty are on site 4-5 days per week, and the Training Fellows also have access to other faculty nearby.

The stipend and benefits should be discussed with the Program Director. Completion of this AACS accredited fellowship may allow the Training Fellow to be eligible to sit the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery and become ABCS board certified.

Training Fellow Prerequisites

The Training Fellow must qualify per the AACS fellowship guidelines. They must be able to obtain an unrestricted Oklahoma medical license and obtain personal malpractice insurance of their choice designed for AACS fellows. The applicant must be either MD or DO trained and board eligible from one of the surgical specialties listed in the AACS fellowship guidelines.