The Vascular Surgery Residency Program is one year of clinical specialization following satisfactory completion of a General Surgery residency. The number of vascular operations performed annually provides extensive operating room experience.
Residents also gain ample experience in preoperative and postoperative management of patients.
In the NonInvasive Vascular Laboratory, residents learn to interpret results and correlate them with clinical findings and angiograms for accuracy. Additional instruction is gained during weekly Vascular Surgery Conferences. The Program at Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center is supervised by full time faculty. Vascular Surgery procedures performed by each general surgery resident number more than 100 major operations. The vascular surgery fellow spends six months covering the vascular surgery patients at Saint Louis University Hospital and six months participating in the care of the vascular surgery patients at St. John's Mercy Medical Center.