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The general surgery residency program at HCMC has a
long tradition of excellence. The residency program provides comprehensive
education in the principal components of general surgery through a process
of residency-oriented supervised continuity of care from the time of the
first patient encounter to the time of discharge from the outpatient follow-up
clinic. The process is reinforced by repetition of clinical experiences
in the principal components throughout the different stages of the residency.
The surgical teaching staff is highly qualified in all disciplines of
surgery and dedicated to surgical education and scholarship. The residency
is five years in length with an additional year of surgical research.
Each year, four categorical and six preliminary residents are accepted
through the National Resident Matching Program.
Chief of
Surgery:
Mark Odland, MD
Residency Director:
Joan M. VanCamp,
MD
Contact:
Phyllis
Squiers, Residency Coordinator,
(612) 347-2849
Length of Surgery Residency:
Five years, plus a year of surgical research/critical
care*
The surgery residency program at
Hennepin County Medical Center is RRC approved
for 28 residents in surgery as follows:
| PGY-1: |
4 categorical; 6 preliminary (designated) |
| PGY-2: |
4 categorical; 2 preliminary |
| PGY-3: |
4 categorical |
| * Research Year |
| PGY-4 |
4 categorical |
| PGY-5 |
4 categorical |
Between the 3rd and 4th clinical general
surgery years of training, the HCMC general surgery residents spend one
year in the research laboratory. The surgery department at Hennepin County
Medical Center is RRC approved for a one year Surgical Critical Care Fellowship.
We have approval for three residents to complete this training each year.
Three of the four categorical general surgery residents complete the surgical
critical care fellowship in addition to critical care related research,
and one resident spends the year working on their own projects or ongoing
clinical or laboratory studies in the Minneapolis Medical Research foudation
animal laboratory facilities.
The residents completing the critical care fellowship are certified and
become eligible to sit for the Critical Care Boards after passing their
Boards in general surgery.
HCMC receives applications only through
ERAS.
Interviews are by invitation only. Application material
will be accepted through November
30th. Candidates that are selected to be invited for a personal interview
are notified through ERAS e-mail. Interviews will be conducted in December
and January. You may contact the surgery residency coordinator, Phyllis
Squiers, for further questions on the application process.
During the first year, the general surgery
and preliminary surgery residents have the same experience rotating through
the surgical services, Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine. The year
is divided as follows: Surgical services 10 months; Emergency Medicine
1 month; and Internal Medicine - 1 month.
During the second year, all residents
rotate through three of the four general surgical services including vascular
access surgery, neurosurgery and plastic and burn surgery.
Each of the four general surgical services (red, blue,
purple, and silver) serves as the in-house trauma service for a 24-hour
period, rotating on-call responsibility every fourth day. In addition
to the on-call trauma and emergency functions, each service includes one
or more specialty services. Inclusion of these specialties intensifies
the experience of the resident on these services. It also makes for greater
efficiency in meeting the complex emergency surgical needs of the institution.
During the second year, the residents also rotate through
the neurosurgery service; the emphasis of this experience is on the management
of head injury and spinal cord trauma. An equal amount of time is spent
on the plastic and burn surgery service, where the residents have ample
opportunity to treat critical burn patients and gain experience in reconstructive
surgery.
From the third through the fifth
year of the training program, all clinical rotations are three months
in duration.
In the third year, the resident has the opportunity
to be a chief resident in the Emergency Medicine Dept. and serves as the
"pit boss" working with the Emergency Medicine staff. Each resident has
the opportunity to be chief resident in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit.
The first two off-campus rotations are during this year.
The Park Nicollet Medical Center where the resident receives experience
with both inpatient and outpatient general surgery and the Cambridge Hospital
where the resident works with HCMC faculty members receiving experience
in endoscopy procedures and general surgery. The rotations are:
- Critical Care - 3 months.
- Emergency Medicine chief resident - 3 months.
- Park Nicollet Medical Center - 3 months.
- Cambridge Hospital - 3 months.
The G-4 resident spends three months
on the private general and vascular surgery service at HealthPartners,
Inc. during this year. The resident also receives three months of intensive
training in vascular surgery on an off-campus rotation. Training in pediatric
surgery is received from the Minneapolis Children's Health Center and
general surgery experience is received on a rotation to Abbott-Northwestern
Hospital, a private hospital in Minneapolis. The rotations are:
- HealthPartners - 3 months
- Minneapolis Children's Health Center - 3 months.
- Vascular surgery - 3 months
- Abbott-Northwestern Hospital - 3 months.
The entire fifth year is spent as a
chief resident at HCMC in general surgery. The chief residents rotate
through each of the four trauma/general surgical and vascular services
and are fully responsible for the conduct of all aspects of each service
including preoperative assessment, intraoperative and postoperative care,
as well as outpatient clinic follow-up. The surgical faculty closely supervises
all activities. The year is divided as follows:
- Red/Trauma - 3 months
- Blue/Trauma - 3 months
- Purple/Trauma - 3 months
- Silver/Trauma/Thoracic - 3 months
7:00 A.M. Mondays SICU Grand Rounds
4:00 P.M. Mondays Mortality and Morbidity Conference
7:30 A.M. Tuesdays Surgical Critical Care Lecture
12:00 Noon Tuesdays Surgical Critical Care Lecture
7:00 A.M. Wednesdays Alternate Vascular, Trauma, GI and Endocrine
Conference
7:30 A.M. Thursdays Stabilization Conference
12:00 Noon Thursdays Tumor Conference
For general residency information please contact
Phyllis.Squiers@hcmed.org,
Residency Program Coordinator.
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