Additional Thoracic experience occurs on the General Surgery services where senior residents perform approximately 250 - 300 cases annually. The Division of Transplant Surgery was instituted in 1996 under the direction of Anthony Monaco, M.D. and is currently under the direction of Paul Morrissey, MD Senior residents on the Vascular Service participate in all transplant procedures and follow these patients postoperatively. At present approximately 50-60 kidney and pancreas transplant procedures are performed yearly in both adults and children. Nutrition Surgical residents rotate on the very active nutritional support service at Rhode Island Hospital for one month of their first year. This experience provides solid grounding in the fundamentals of surgical metabolism and the effects of illness on nutritional requirements.
Residents also learn placement of central venous catheters.
Residents' Animate and Inanimate Laboratory Residents receive additional operative training in monthly animal labs which are run by faculty members and the laparoscopic surgery fellow. Residents may practice a variety of open and laparoscopic general, thoracic and cardiac procedures. Practice at inanimate skill stations is required of surgical residents at each PGY level.