Contact Name: John C Aust, MD - thomasr@mailbox.hscsyr.edu
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SUNY Health Science Ctr-Syracuse Dept of Surgery
750 E Adams Street
Syracuse, NY  13210 Phone: (315) 464-6289 Fax: (315) 464-6233

The Dept. of Surgery at the SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse offers a traditional comprehensive general surgery residency program with a curriculum emphasizing clinical surgery as well as the latest minimally invasive operative techniques. While residents are encouraged to spend one to two years in surgical research, this is not a requirement of the program. Supervised experience in both traditional, open surgical procedures and newer, minimally invasive techniques is provided and stressed at all levels of the residency. The resident progressively acquires more extensive knowledge of surgical physiology and increasingly develops skills of more advanced surgical technique. The Dept. of Surgery emphasizes individual instruction, however, scheduled teaching rounds and conferences are held weekly to discuss clinical problems. Great emphasis also is placed on a solid understanding of surgical pathophysiology; on the indications, conduct and limits of operative procedures; and on the evaluation and management of post-operative complications. A weekly Basic Surgical Science Lecture Series is held for all categorical residents. The core of the program is based at University Hospital, a 350-bed, Level I trauma center which serves 17 counties in upstate and central NY, and the adjacent V. A. Medical Center. Resident teams also rotate through general surgical teaching services of the adjacent Crouse Hospital and the nearby Community-General Hospital and St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center. The surgery residency program is supported and enhanced by the Endoscopic Surgery Training Center, located within the Dept. of Surgery at the SUNY Health Science Center's University Hospital. The Dept. of Surgery has extensive research facilities in which both clinical and basic research scientists work as full-time members of the department. The postgraduate program in general surgery involves five years of training with the final two years devoted as chief resident. First year surgical residents are admitted through the National Resident Matching Program. Approximately 20 first year positions are available each year. Five of these are for physicians who want to complete a general surgery residency. The remainder are for individuals required to have one or two years of general surgery training prior to entering other specialty residency programs. Physicians interested in applying for a residency position should do so through ERAS and will then be required to visit the Dept. of Surgery for interviews with faculty and house staff. Rose G. Thomas Residency Program Coordinator

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