Curriculum
First Year
7 months General Surgery (consult/night floats)
3 months Trauma
1 month Critical Care
1 month Emergency Medicine
Second Year
8 months General Surgery
2 months Trauma Surgery
2 months Transplant Surgery
Third Year
7 months General Surgery
2 months Vascular Surgery
1 month GI Surgery
1 month Trauma Surgery
1 month Pediatric/Transplant Surgery
Fourth Year
10 months General Surgery
1 month Surgery Elective*
1 month Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
Fifth Year
Full year General Surgery
*Available electives include GYN Oncology, Plastic Surgery, ENT, as well as additional time in subspecialties of interest. Residents are permitted to use their elective to "audition" at fellowship programs and/or future practice sites.
Didactics
- Surgery Grand Rounds: Weekly
- Mortality & Morbidity Conferences: Weekly
- Staff Lectures: Monthly
- Resident Lectures: Monthly
- Cases Presentations: Monthly
- Breast Conference: Quarterly
- Critical Care Conferences: Monthly
- OMM Conferences: Bimonthly
- GI Conferences: Bimonthly
- Vascular Conferences: Bimonthly
- Tumor Board: Weekly
- Trauma Conference: Monthly
- Trauma M&M: 8 times/year
- Ethics Conference: Quarterly
- SCORE Topics: Monthly
- Cadaver Labs: 4-6 times/year
- Journal Club: Monthly
- Guest Lecturers
- Laparoscopic Simulator Experience - lab-based training sessions
- Standardized Patient Assessment - lab-based training sessions (SPAL)
All residents have an Adjunct Instructor Appointment at Des Moines University of provide lectures and surgical skills laboratory instruction.