This arrangement provides stimulating teaching and assures the highest level of care. Areas of special qualification include vascular, endocrine, gastrointestinal, transplant, oncologic, burn, plastic and reconstructive, thoracic, cardiovascular , hand and microvascular surgery, surgical infection, surgical nutrition, trauma, and critical care. Thus, although our attending staff remain true general surgeons, their expertise in specific areas brings the most advanced techniques to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. The two general surgical services at the University Hospital all perform general surgery, but have different emphases, as determined by faculty grouping. The areas of concentration of the services are gastrointestinal, oncology, and endocrine surgery.
Vascular surgery is a separate service.