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Clinical Experience - Surgery Residency Program
The emphasis during the PGY I year is to develop experience in all facets of pre- and postoperative surgical care while mastering the fundamentals of general surgical technique and principles. Operative experience is considered moderate with approximately 100 uncomplicated surgical and endoscopic procedures performed by the PGY I house staff.
Rotations
- Acute Care Surgery
- Breast Surgical Oncology
- Colon and Rectal Surgery
- Minimally Invasive/Bariatric Surgery
- Plastic Surgery
- Surgical Oncology
- Surgical Critical Care
- Vascular Surgery
- General Surgery at Leonard Chabert Medical Center (LCMC) in Houma
Residents' operative experience is again considered moderate and is commensurate with the residents' technical abilities. In general, by the completion of the PGY II year, residents have completed over 250 cases as surgeons.
Rotations
- Acute Care Surgery
- Breast Surgical Oncology
- Cardiac Critical Care
- General Surgery at Ochsner Kenner Medical Center
- Pediatric Surgery
- Surgical Critical Care
- Trauma Surgery at UMC
- General Surgery at Leonard Chabert Medical Center (LCMC) in Houma
The third-year operative experience is considered extensive. The average resident in the Ochsner program has performed more than 600 surgical procedures by the completion of the PGY III year.
Rotations
- Acute Care Surgery
- Breast Surgical Oncology
- General Surgery at Ochsner Northshore Medical Complex
- Minimally Invasive/Bariatric Surgery
- Transplant Surgery
- Vascular Surgery
- General Surgery at Leonard Chabert Medical Center (LCMC) in Houma
- Night Float ICU
As the complexity of cases increase, our fourth-year residents perform between 250-350 operative procedures during this very busy year, bringing the total surgeon cases to over 800 by the end of the fourth year.
Rotations
- Endocrine Surgery
- General Surgery at Ochsner Kenner Medical Center
- Pediatric Surgery
- Surgical Oncology
- Thoracic Surgery
- Trauma Surgery at UMC
- General Surgery at Leonard Chabert Medical Center (LCMC) in Houma
The average chief resident performs 250-350 general surgical procedures, bringing the total operative experience to between 1050-1350 cases by the completion of training. We encourage a graduated level of autonomy and the expectations of chief residents to begin to function independently both in making clinical decisions as well as in the OR.
Rotations
- Acute Care Surgery
- Colon and Rectal Surgery
- General Surgery at Ochsner Northshore Medical Complex
- Minimally Invasive/Bariatric Surgery
- Surgical Oncology
- General Surgery at Leonard Chabert Medical Center (LCMC) in Houma
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