The cardiac and thoracic surgery service includes a progressive experience operating within the thoracic chamber. Additional experience in vascular surgery is gained on the Veterans Affairs General Surgery Rotation. Residents are trained by six vascular surgeons and two vascular fellows. The service operates in both the main operating room and in the vein clinic procedure room. Residents participate in both open and endovascular surgeries. The service employs two endocrine surgeons and one endocrine fellow. Residents are expected to participate in an outpatient clinic that includes an experience of ultrasound-guided biopsies and laryngoscopy. Provides residents an opportunity to diagnose and treat disorders of the thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal and endocrine pancreas. The service is a Center of Excellence for Bariatric Surgery and employs three surgeons. Additionally, residents perform many general surgical operations including laparoscopic cholecystectomy and herniorrhaphy. Provides residents an opportunity to operate on and care for a population of bariatric patients while also training residents in robotic and limited incision techniques of laparoscopy. The service employs two dedicated surgical oncologists and additional surgeons caring for breast disease. Provides residents an opportunity to care for patients with upper gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, pancreatic and breast cancer. The service employs four colorectal surgeons. Provides residents an opportunity to experience patients in an outpatient clinic, perform colonoscopies and operate on colorectal disease. Elective General SurgeryĬonsists of four independent services that operate on and care for a mixture of inpatient and outpatient surgical patients: Colorectal Surgery Interns are on a night float system divided between four or five interns.

The service also cares for the majority of inpatient general surgery consults.Ĭall is divided on average every third night for Chief Resident and midlevel residents, with guaranteed two weekends off per month.

Residents care for a diverse population of patients, ranging from those requiring critical care to outpatient and elective surgeries. Provides a combination of trauma surgery and emergency general surgeries. Regardless of the resident's choice of private practice or an academic career, these issues are shaping the surgical landscape of the future. Furthermore, our training program effectively uses the ACS NSQIP and QITI programs to introduce and educate quality improvement skills and outcomes assessment to our trainees which are essential skills for the modern practicing surgeon.

The Department of Surgery has a strong interest in surgical outcomes, quality improvement and patient safety and offers a research fellowship in Healthcare Quality Improvement and Patient Safety.

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