Curriculum
Program Components
Residents and faculty will participate in an extensive didactic curriculum that includes:
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Weekly Grand Rounds Conference
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Weekly Departmental Morbidity and Mortality Conference
- Service-Specific Didactic and M&M Conferences
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A dedicated skills development rotation in which PGY-1 residents have dedicated time to learn and enhance technical skills
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Simulation lab with supervised curriculum
- Mock oral exam preparation for PGY3-5 residents
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Resident teaching skills course
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Business and leadership development curriculum
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Clinical management course for PGY3-5 residents
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Journal Club meeting
- Sono-Sim Ultrasound Training Solution combines online didactics, knowledge assessment, and hands-on ultrasound education for the residents. When the SonoSim® transducer is inserted into a USB port it transforms the personal computer into a bedside ultrasound-training environment. Learners receive immediate transducer-positioning guidance and expert feedback while scanning real-patient cases.
Goals
The goal of the General Surgery Residency is to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to evaluate, diagnose, and manage surgical patients in a professional and compassionate manner. Residents participate in a broad spectrum of patient-care cases including general surgery, vascular surgery, and surgical oncology opportunities. The care of these patients require a multidisciplinary approach which depends on advanced interpersonal communication skills not only with collaborative colleagues, but more importantly, communication with the patient and the patient’s family. The overall goals of the program include:
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Demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to evaluate, diagnose, and perform preoperative, operative and postoperative management of general surgical patients with complex disease processes involving the gastrointestinal tract, abdominal wall, and integument system, including emergency general surgery, trauma, and surgical critical care.
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Demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to evaluate, diagnose, and perform preoperative, operative and postoperative management of patients with peripheral vascular, aortic, and carotid artery disease.
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Demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to evaluate, diagnose, and perform preoperative, operative and postoperative management of patients with oncologic disorders.
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Demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to evaluate, diagnose and perform preoperative, operative and postoperative management of patients with endocrine disorders.
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Demonstrate the ability to investigate and evaluate the care of patients, to appraise and assimilate scientific evidence, and to continuously improve patient care based on constant self-evaluation and lifelong learning.
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Demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context, system and business of health care, as well as the ability to call effectively on other resources in the system to provide optimal health care.
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General Surgery in the Senior Years 4-5: Overall goal of the final two years is to build on the basic knowledge and skills of the junior years and to mature into a self-confident, technically competent surgeon.
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General Surgery in the Senior Year 5: Overall goal is to be able to use all previous goals to transition into a reliable, competent, confident general surgeon who can independently evaluate, diagnose, operate upon, and perioperatively manage surgical patients.