Surgical Residency

The General Surgery program provides a broad-based five-year general surgery education that encompasses the following specialties: head and neck, plastic and reconstructive surgery, thoracic, vascular, hand and orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, pediatric surgery, laser surgery, proctology and endoscopy, trauma and critical care. The General Surgery Program has accreditation for a compliment of 30 residents, 4 categorical at each PGY level, 4 designated preliminary, and 6 non-designated preliminary residents at the PGY 1 and 2 levels.

Residency Program

The training program is organized into four teaching units and an average daily in-patient census of 30 to 35. Each unit includes a team of five surgical residents, headed by a chief resident and two medical students who are closely supervised by a dedicated group of full-time attending surgeons. All patients are assigned as resident teaching cases and approximately 95 percent of all operations are performed by residents, under strict attending staff supervision.

Program Format

Teaching conferences are held every Friday and include the Basic Science Lecture Series, Mortality and Morbidity Conferences, Grand Rounds, Multi Disciplinary Tumor Board, Vascular Surgery, Trauma/Critical Care, Pediatric Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, Journal Club, Radiology/Surgery Correlative and Core Curriculum/General Conferences. Teaching rounds are held twice daily by the chief residents and by the critical care directors in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit. Residency rotations include: the 6 bed Surgical Intensive Care Unit; the Emergency Room, with emphasis on the diagnosis of emergency surgical disorders and early care of the injured patient; anesthesia; urology; and gynecology.

Affiliations

New York Cornell Campus of the New York Presbyterian Health System provides rotations in transplantation surgery, under the supervision of William T. Stubenbord, MD, Chief of Transplant Surgery; cardiac surgery under the supervision of O.Wayne Isom, MD; and a burn rotation under the supervision of Dr. Roger W. Yurt, Director of the Burn Center. These one month rotations are for the PGY 3 level of training. Rotation at the Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center, a 438-bed New York City Health and Hospital Corporation facility, provides the residents a broad-based surgical case mix with emphasis on trauma. Residents at the PGY 4 level administer a group of six residents who run the surgical service with supervision of full-time salaried faculty surgeons. This rotation is under the supervision of Dr. S. Barzideh, MD, Chairman of the Surgery Department.

Teaching Units

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