I at Shands Hospital is an active general surgery service which performs over 600 major surgical procedures annually. Specific interest is given to complex gastrointestinal, hepato-biliary and pancreatic problems, morbid obesity and gastrointestinal malignancies.
Clinics are two mornings a week followed by a noontime teaching conference and formal rounds.
The Surgery I attending staff and Housestaff maintain complete coverage of their service at all times. The chief resident is responsible for the general conduct of the service, including daily rounds, patient responsibilities, emergency room coverage, and preoperative procedures and evaluations. I patients, the chief resident and surgical staff are devoted as well to resident and medical student training and education. Surgery IV is the transplantation service at Shands Hospital and performs kidney, liver and pancreas transplantation. The service is staffed by a third year and a second year resident.