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Post-Graduate Year 3

  • Coordinate teaching of junior residents and medical students
  • Refinement of surgical skills
  • Serve as “chief” resident at busy trauma SICU and renal transplant
  • Focused endoscopy experience rotating at all 3 institutions
  • 4 weeks of vacation

Sample PGY 3 Rotation Schedule

  • Four months of general surgery / surgical oncology
  • Two months of thoracic surgery
  • Two months of endoscopy
  • Two months of surgical ICU night float chief
  • One month of transplant surgery
  • One month of vascular surgery