George Washington University Medical Center Surgical Residency Program

The Children's National Medical Center is a free-standing hospital geographically separate from, but closely tied to, The George Washington University School of Medicine is a major training facility for pediatric surgery. The hospital is a community resource for the care of critically ill children as well as for primary care. Children's has 279 beds and provides all major pediatric services. Members of the Department of Surgery hold joint appointments in Pediatrics and Surgery at The George Washington University. Children's National Medical Center is the major pediatric education facility in the city of Washington. The Department of Surgery at the Children's National Medical Center provides a two-year training experience in pediatric surgery for individuals who have completed training in general surgery. The department provides three- to four-months experience in common and unusual pediatric surgical conditions for residents in the General Surgical Training Program.

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Holy Cross Hospital

Holy Cross Hospital, with 442 beds, is the largest acute care facility in Montgomery County, Maryland. Serving the Washington Metropolitan area since 1963, the hospital offers medical, surgical, obstetric, newborn, pediatric, gynecologic, psychiatric, critical care, emergency, diagnostic, rehabilitative, home care/hospice, and adult day services. Holy Cross Hospital is a recognized teaching center through its affiliation with The George Washington University, and has the largest medical staff in Montgomery County. Residents rotating through Holy Cross Hospital participate in the care of private patients with a large variety of common surgical problems. The teaching program is under the direction of Jules Cahan, M.D., who holds an appointment as Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery at the George Washington University.

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Inova Fairfax Hospital

The Inova Fairfax Hospital is a 656-bed regional medical center serving the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Located in Falls Church, Virginia, it is the only Level I Trauma Center accredited both by the State and the American College of Surgeons in Northern Virginia. The Fairfax/Inova Regional Trauma Center is a very busy and high quality institution, with excellent teaching for surgery residents, both in trauma and general surgery training. While the overwhelming majority of patients are trauma victims, several non-trauma critically ill patients are transferred from other hospitals for treatment at the Center.

The educational goals of the Center include increasing the clinical skills and knowledge base of house staff members in the resuscitation, diagnosis and treatment of trauma patients, and improving the residents' understanding of the continuum of care involved in the treatment of trauma patients-from the scene of injury, through discharge home or to a rehabilitation setting. Activities include trauma call every third or fourth day with core curriculum of lectures, a clinical skills laboratory, and weekly morbidity and mortality conferences. Residents in the General Surgery program rotate for two months on this service in the second post-graduate years, and residents in the fifth post-graduate years rotate for three months.

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The Veterans Adminstation Medical Center

The Veterans Administration Medical Center (VA) of Washington, D.C. is a 708-bed facility committed to providing the highest quality health care to veterans in an environment that is conducive to medical education and research. The Surgical Service at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center is closely tied to the residency training program at The George Washington University through its attending physicians who hold faculty appointments at the University Medical Center.

Residents rotate to the VA in the second and sixth post-graduate years, obtaining extensive operative experience in both vascular and general surgery. In addition, many of our residents elect to perform intensive research at the laboratories at the VA.

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Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

PGY-2 residents from GW function as integral members of the Transplant Team, participating in the full range of activities which include liver, kidney, and pancreas transplants, vascular access procedures, general surgery performed on organ transplant recipients, inpatient management, and outpatient visits. There are approximately 15 to 35 patients on the service at any given time and residents have primary responsibility for the daily care of these complex patients under the supervision of the fellows and attendings. Outpatient clinics are held twice weekly and are attended by the resident staff and well as fellows and attendings.

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Affiliated and Associated Institutions

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