Division of General Surgery
The Division of General Surgery has full-time and clinical faculty. There are two general surgical services: orange and white. Each general surgical service has one senior or chief resident, one mid-level resident, and one first year resident. Medical students also rotate on the services throughout the year. Residents are exposed to a range of general surgical procedures and are actively involved in direct patient care throughout the patient’s clinical course. They see patients in the general surgery offices on the office hour days of their services. Thus, residents have the opportunity to evaluate patients pre-operatively, scrub on the patient’s surgical procedure, manage them in the post-operative period, and follow them in the outpatient setting. There are a large number of ambulatory surgical cases (outpatient) performed each year and the resident staff is actively involved in these cases as well.
The general surgical services offer ample opportunity for residents to be exposed to the broad discipline of general surgery, including alimentary and biliary tract surgery, laparoendoscopic surgery, colon and rectal surgery, endocrine surgery, and breast and oncologic surgery.
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