The residency program in surgery and endoscopy of the gastrointestinal tract is an academic activity of the Division of General Surgery of the University of Pisa. Director of the program is Franco Mosca MD, ordinary professor of Surgery at Pisa University Medical School and Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. The residency accepts yearly one resident for a five-year program according to European Community directives. National and European Community Graduated in Medicine are accepted for an oral and written examination. During the five-year program, residents rotate in different sections including general surgery, digestive surgery, GI endoscopy, liver and pancreatic transplants, interventional ultrasound.
Special interest is pursued to ERCP and operative maneuvers on the bilio-pancreatic system.
Traditional plastic and self-expandable metallic stents are routinely applied.