Rotations at Lahey Clinic Medical Center
| PGY |
ROTATION |
DURATION |
LOCATION |
| 1 |
General Surgery |
3 Months |
Lahey |
| 1 |
Colorectal |
3 Months |
Lahey |
| 1 |
Vascular Surgery |
1-2 Months |
Lahey |
| 1 |
Anesthesia |
2 Weeks |
Lahey |
| 1 |
Surgery: Night Call |
1.5 Months |
Lahey |
| 1 |
Emergency Ward |
2 Weeks |
Lahey |
| 2 |
General Surgery |
2 Months |
Lahey |
| 2 |
Vascular Surgery |
2 Month |
Lahey |
| 2 |
Surgical Intensive Care Unit |
3 Months |
Lahey |
| 2 |
Transplant Surgery |
2 Months |
Lahey |
| 3 |
Pediatric Surgery |
2 Months |
Children’s Hospital |
| 3 |
Trauma Surgery |
2 Months |
R Cowley Shock/Trauma |
| 3 |
General Surgery |
4 Months |
Lahey |
| 3 |
Vascular Surgery |
2 Months |
Lahey |
| 3 |
Breast Surgery |
1 Month |
Lahey |
| 4 |
General Surgery |
2 Months |
Lahey |
| 4 |
Vascular Surgery |
2 Months |
Lahey |
| 4 |
Colorectal Surgery/Endoscopy |
2 Months |
Lahey |
| 4 |
Colorectal Surgery |
2 Months |
Lahey |
| 4 |
Cardiothoracic |
2 Months |
Lahey |
| 4 |
Hepatobiliary Surgery |
2 Months |
Lahey |
| 4 |
Endoscopy |
1 Month |
Lahey |
| 5 |
General Surgery |
4 Months |
Lahey |
| 5 |
Vascular Surgery |
4 Months |
Lahey |
| 5 |
Hepatobiliary Surgery |
2 Months |
Lahey |
| 5 |
Colorectal Surgery |
2 Months |
Lahey |
| 5 |
Endoscopy |
1 Month |
Lahey |
Affiliated Hospital Rotations
Specialized rotations in centers of expertise are part of the general surgical resident education.
Pediatric Surgery
Children's Hospital, Boston, serves as both an international tertiary care referral center and a primary care hospital for the immediate area. As a third-year surgical resident rotating there, the general surgery resident will be part of the large surgical team. The average census for in-house surgical patients ranges between 50 and 70. Responsibilities include management of the in-house patients, assisting in the operating room, exposure to both pediatric and neonatal intensive care units, exposure to emergency room patients, and weekly attendance at the follow-up outpatient clinic. The breadth of cases to which residents are exposed includes such classic pediatric issues as pyloric stenosis, intussusception, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, transplantation, tracheoesophageal fistula, cloacal repairs, and the more routine pediatric hernias and hydroceles. This rotation offers an unusual breadth of exposure to routine and exotic pediatric surgical problems.
Trauma
The Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore is an active trauma referral center taking trauma throughout the Commonwealth of Maryland. Third-year residents spend two months as an integral part of one of the trauma teams, and take care of penetrating and blunt trauma.