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Educational Conferences

Attendance is mandatory for these six conferences:
Basic Science / Evidence Based Surgery Monthly
Surgery Grand Rounds Weekly
Indications Conference Weekly
Morbidity and Mortality Conference Weekly
Core Competencies Seminars Weekly (in summer)
For the following conferences, attendance is mandatory when on the involved service:
Transplant/Liver Transplant Teaching Conference Weekly
Blue/Orange Service Rounds Weekly
Hepatobiliary-Pancreas Multidisciplinary Conference Weekly
Trauma Conference Weekly
Gold (Endocrine/MIS) Conference Weekly
Pediatric Surgery Conference Weekly
Vascular Surgery Conference Weekly
Other Conferences:
Oral Boards Review Conference Monthly
Quality Improvement Conference Quarterly
Resident Research Conference Quarterly
Ethics Rounds Quarterly


Conference Highlights

The conference schedule is intended to provide you with a Socratic approach to your medical education. Conferences are presented in part by the residents and in part by faculty or visiting professors.
The Indications Conference is structured around the national SCORE curriculum. Each week’s conference focuses on one of the SCORE topic areas. A faculty facilitator leads residents through guided inquiry, usually focusing questions on specific cases. General Surgery residents and faculty

The Basic Science/Evidence Based Surgery conference is held once a month. Topics and journal articles are selected at the beginning of each year. The conference is structured around the core basic science areas of general surgery. Residents are required to read from a surgical textbook of their choice. Residents are given basic science questions to guide their reading; however, discussion expands beyond the selected questions. The EBS portion of the conference is structured around a journal article pertaining to the basic science topic. . A junior resident presents and discusses the basic science topic. A senior resident prepares an analysis of the article, including study design, results, conclusions, and the article’s implications on modern surgical practice. An expert in the field discusses the basic science that supports clinical decisions. This is followed by a formal question and answer session.

Surgery Grand Rounds is presented by ssurgical faculty, visiting professors and chief residents. Here are videos of some recent Grand Rounds

Morbidity and Mortality Conference is a key teaching conference during which all complications and deaths are presented by senior residents and discussed by faculty and residents.


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