Umdnj surgery residency program

Oregon - DO 1. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania - DO 4. Puerto Rico 1. Rhode Island 1. South Carolina 3. Tennessee 3. Texas Utah 1. Vermont 1. Virginia 3. Washington 2. West Virginia 2. Wisconsin 2. Washington, DC 4. Canada Search Advanced search. September 10, Gloria A. Adrian C Balica, MD. Kimberly L Bodenlos, MD. Justin S. Brandt, MD. Jessica Fields, MD. Sonal Grover, MD. Jennifer Hill, MD. Juana A. Kerri Keselowsky, MD. Our mission is to train a diverse resident group, representative of the population of Brooklyn, to grow the diversity in the community of practicing academically accomplished general surgeons practicing in urban America.

The Surgical Residency Program aims to prepare the resident to function as a culturally competent practitioner of surgery at the advanced level of performance expected of a board-certified specialist in an urban setting.

The education encompasses both didactic instruction in the basic and clinical sciences of surgical diseases and conditions, as well as training in procedural skills and operative techniques. The educational process will lead to the acquisition of an appropriate fund of knowledge and technical skills, the ability to integrate the acquired knowledge into the clinical situation, and the development of surgical judgment, as well as awareness of disparities of care.

We aim to train surgeons who can use inquiry to improve care for the populations they serve. In addition, our campus sponsors the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, whose mission is to engage with our community partners to advocate for health equity. A focus of the SUNY Downstate research mission is to investigate and create solutions addressing health disparities. The Brooklyn Health Disparities Center is a collaboration with our academic center, community partners, and local policy officials to create evidence-based strategies to reduce health disparities in Brooklyn.

Our program reviews resident applications holistically, picture blind, to assure that implicit biases are minimized. All clinics throughout the residency are cancelled on these days. Following the Mortality and Morbidity Conference, residents present cases to the faculty and residents for discussion, followed by two to three hours of lectures and conferences.

First-year residents are subsidized to attend the free optics review course held one weekend in March at Baylor in Houston, Texas, for which the department pays airfare and housing. Finally, the department offers an introductory microsurgery course every August to orient new residents to the surgical aspects of ophthalmology. Resident research projects are mandatory, and the faculty participates actively in guiding residents in their research endeavors.

Travel funds are available for residents whose abstracts are accepted for presentation at national meetings Table1 , such as the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology or the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Following the two week introductory course, first-year residents are on hour in-house call approximately once every sixth night. Second-year residents are on hour in-house call once every month: they cover all Friday nights and take in-house call 2 Saturdays during the year, for a total of 12 times per year for each second-year resident.

Third-year residents take in-house call 2 Saturdays during the year and are on back-up call for surgical emergencies when they are doing rotations at University Hospital. Residents are also provided financial support to attend any meeting at which their research has been accepted for presentation. Paul D. Instead, the faculty remains completely dedicated to resident training.

Furthermore, all didactic lectures are presented by faculty, and all surgical cases in which the resident is primary surgeon including after-hours cases of ocular trauma are staffed by an attending physician.

Each of the 3 years of the residency is divided into 5 rotations, each lasting approximately 10 weeks. Veterans Affairs Medical Center. University Hospital General Eye Clinic. Jersey City Medical Center. Through a series of lectures and practical sessions in the clinic eg, tutoring in refraction, use of the indirect ophthalmoscope , residents learn to recognize and manage a variety of ophthalmic problems, such as conjunctivitis, orbital cellulitis, and ruptured globes.

By the end of the course, residents are able to conduct eye examinations, describe their physical findings, and present the salient features of the history and physical examination.