Patients Seen Inpatient and outpatient experiences are merged on each service. Each team has a nonoperative day during which time the residents are expected to be in the clinical offices evaluating new patients and seeing postoperative patients. The operating resident is expected to participate in the preoperative evaluation of the patient, as well as their postoperative care. The General Surgical Services and the Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Service admit between 2,800 and 3,100 patients annually. The services perform between 1,800 and 2,400 major operations annually.
Residents also have access to a fully-equipped noninvasive vascular laboratory.
500-bed Medical Center Hospital Campus provides secondary care for the 130,000 residents of Chittenden County and tertiary care for approximately 1 million people who reside in Vermont and Upstate New York. FAHC, along with the University Health Center, and the University of Vermont's Division of Health Sciences, which includes the College of Medicine, School of Allied Health Sciences and School of Nursing, make up the Vermont Academic Medical Center. The Fanny Allen Hospital Campus provides elderly care, rehabilitation services and with its 5 operating rooms as well as additional procedure and endoscopy suites, serves as an outpatient surgery center. A year of basic science research is performed following completion of two years of clinical training. This can be performed at the University of Vermont or at a laboratory at another institution if extramural funding is available.