As an academic medical center, Baylor provides surgical residents with extensive experience in both common and unusual cases, especially in such areas as surgical oncology, endoscopy, and trauma. In fact, every surgery patient at Baylor is a teaching case.
The general surgery department includes outstanding programs in vascular surgery, transplant surgery, colon and rectal surgery, and breast surgery. From an educational standpoint, this breadth of experience provides a strong foundation for our training program. The diversity of surgical expertise enables our physicians to provide broad-based patient care in this large referral medical center.
At Baylor University Medical Center, the surgeons are committed to surgical education. Assigned to a general surgery teaching service, each staff surgeon regularly participates in the resident training program. Residents are involved in the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care of patients. Assignments to private physicians’ offices on campus give residents access to pre- and post-hospital care. An indigent patient clinic is also available to each surgical service.
Residents perform a high percentage of the general surgical procedures; after five years of training, a surgery resident will have completed more than 1,100 surgeries.
The department of surgery is approved for 40 residents, graduating eight chief residents each year. Of the 13 first-year positions available, five are pre-specialty. The other eight positions are for five-year general surgery categorical residents.
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