They also can assist you or your staff by scheduling consultations or referral appointments with our physicians. Two first-year residency positions are awarded annually on a competitive basis through the National Residents Matching Program. Clinical rotations are in University Hospital and Clinics, Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans' Hospital, and Ellis Fischel Cancer Center. Residents rotate through the specialties of cardiothoracic surgery, neurological surgery, orthopedic surgery, otolaryngology, plastic and reconstructive surgery, and urology, as well as general surgery.
Additional time is spent in the burn and surgical intensive care units.
Pediatric Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, and Trauma are sections of General Surgery. Debra Koivunen, MD, is the program director for the general surgery residency program. Michael H. Metzler, MD , is the program director for the surgical critical care position. Contact your medical school dean's office for information about the application process. Provision may be made for integrating the one-year critical care program experience, which is devoted exclusively to surgical critical care, with a trauma or burn fellowship.