| | Curriculum | PGY 1
(call averages every fourth to fifth night) | - Vascular surgery 1 month
- Orthopedic surgery 1 month
- Urology 1 month
- Transplant surgery 1 month
- General surgery/trauma surgery 7 months
- Pediatric surgery 1 month
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| PGY 2
(call averages every third to fourth night) | - Critical care medicine 2 months
- Plastic surgery 1 month
- Gastroenterology/endoscopy 1 month
- General surgery/trauma surgery 6 months
- Research rotation 2 months
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| PGY 3
(call averages every third to fourth night) | - Pediatric surgery 4 months
- General surgery/trauma surgery 8 months
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| PGY 4
(call averages every fourth night) | - Thoracic surgery 2 months
- Vascular surgery 4 months
- General surgery/trauma surgery 6 months
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| PGY 5
(call averages every fourth night) | - General surgery/trauma surgery 12 months
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The residents from this program graduate with between 1,100 -1,200 major cases, well above the Residency Review Committee minimum of 800. General Surgery is divided into the following rotations: | - General Surgery
- MIS/Bariatrics
- Breast
- Trauma
- Pediatrics
- Vascular
- Transplant
- ICU
- Plastics
| | The time on each team is divided as equally as possible. The endoscopy experience is excellent with residents obtaining between 100 - 200 colonoscopies and EGDs by the completion of their residency. The intensive care units' experience is broad based. During your rotation in the ICU, you are only responsible to the unit, although per the ACGME, residents are excused to attend all educational conferences. The experience is strong in ventilator management, procedures, hemodynamic monitoring and multidisciplinary approach to the critically ill patient. The laparoscopic experience is solid with both adult and pediatric advanced laparoscopic procedures. These include but are not limited to cholecystectomies, inguinal hernias, post-operative ventral hernias, fundoplication, Heller myotomy, splenectomy, appendectomies, gastric bypass, common bile duct exploration and colon resection. | Weekly Didactics | Monthly Didactics | - Basic science lecture
- Absite review
- Surgical education conference (M & M)
- ACS weekly review
| - Surgical grand rounds
- Trauma multi-disciplinary conference
- Research conference
- Journal club
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