The second month of surgery is done at East Texas Medical Center with board certified trauma surgeons. Residents become confident in evaluating the Emergency Room trauma patient, putting in chest tubes, intubating patients and running central lines. Also included in the training is an excellent SICU experience. During this rotation, residents review large volumes of films to become comfortable reading x-rays. The learning experience includes reading plain radiographs, CT's, MRI's and ultrasounds.
Residents study at their own pace with an extensive teaching file.
This rotation allows the resident to work side by side with the cardiologist to become confident in reading EKG's and evaluating patients from the cardiology consultant viewpoint. This learning experience includes review of cardiac pressures and formulas, review of coronary arteriograms and echocardiograms, and learning procedures such as floating a venous cardiac catheter. Discussion topics range from antiarrhythmics to the evaluation and treatment of aortic stenosis. Residents also attend weekly cardiac catheterization conferences where films are reviewed and discussed with a team of surgeons and cardiologists. MICU Residents work with intensive care specialists to learn about ventilator management and central venous pressures.