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General Surgery Residency Greenville - Curriculum

The General Surgery Program offers 30 categorical positions, six each at the PGY-1 through PGY-5 levels. In addition, up to four PGY-1 preliminary positions are offered to those seeking a one-year experience. Chief residents are responsible for directing and managing their own surgical service.

Global surgery

ACGME/American Board of Surgery approved electives in available for PGY-2, 3, 4 and 5 general surgery residents.  

  • Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital, Togo, West Africa

Skills curriculum

  • ACS/APDS Skills Modules
  • Simulation Center, which includes a GI BRONCH Mentor Simulator
  • Skills Lab 24/7 in hospital (features LapSim computer simulator)
  • Animal Labs
  • Cadaver Labs

Clinics

Our residents have a variety of outpatient experiences in the ambulatory non-hospital setting. The three most predominant experiences include the Surgery Clinic, the Multidisciplinary Clinic and the Breast Health Center.

The surgery clinic

  • Trauma clinic
  • General surgery clinic
  • Chief clinic
  • Vascular clinic

These clinics are primarily focused on the unfunded patients in these different discipline areas. The clinics are all staffed by an attending physician and the residents. Residents are exposed to a broad range of clinical material, but also address the core competency professionalism in that there is a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds represented by the patients in the clinics.

The multidisciplinary clinic (MDC)

MDC is specifically targeted at addressing complex surgical oncology issues. There is a GI MDC and Thoracic MDC. Both clinics involve surgical faculty with expertise in that subspecialty, as well as Medical Oncology and Radiation Oncology faculty members. Residents are exposed to the sophisticated multidisciplinary approach to complex surgical oncology problems. This allows them to better understand the medical oncology and radiation oncology approach to these diseases and how they complement surgical treatment.

The Breast Health Center

The Breast Health Center provides residents with an exposure to comprehensive one-stop management of breast diseases both, benign and malignant. In this setting, there are a variety of patients from all backgrounds that represent the full gamut of breast disease. The Breast Health Center has the capability for comprehensive management of all breast disease through:

  • Radiology services
  • Breast imaging
  • Image-guided biopsy
  • Minor surgery (core biopsy)

This gives the resident a good foundation in breast disease and its management with all the potential tools available.

Research

Residents are required to make a grand rounds presentation during their fourth and fifth years of residency. All residents are expected to complete an additional project during their second to third years of residency with direct mentorship by a faculty member. Faculty members in all of the divisions have active research projects.

The program has an annual lectureship (J.D. Ashmore Lectureship) and residents are encouraged to present a research paper at this meeting during their residency. Residents are encouraged to participate in numerous faculty projects and present their research at regional and national scientific meetings.

Resident conference paper presentations

  • South Carolina Vascular Surgical Society
  • Southeastern Surgical Congress
  • Association of Program Directors in Surgery
  • American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
  • Southern Association for Vascular Surgery
  • Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery
  • SAGES
  • World Congress of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery and Perioperative Medicine
  • Society of Surgical Oncology
  • American Association of Endocrine Surgeons
  • Association of Program Coordinators in Surgery (ARCS), Global Surgery
  • NC/SC American College of Surgeons
  • 23rd European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery, Lisbon Portugal

In the past five years department residents and faculty have made over 170 presentations at regional and national meetings, and 150 at local meetings. They have published more than 90 articles in peer reviewed journals such as The American Surgeon, The Journal of Vascular Surgery, American Journal of Surgery, and the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.