Conferences

Mandatory weekly didactic series will take place on Thursday mornings. This curriculum will follow the Decker Med Surgery modules, TrueLearn and ABSITE Review. Once a month this period will be used for surgical skills training. Each rotation has its weekly curriculum at noon which attendance is encouraged.

A residency wide Journal club will be held once a month. A monthly rotation of topics within the essential components of general surgery will be covered with a review of landmark literature and current guidelines.

Conferences on basic research methodology and development of clinical questions, with the goal of mentoring categorical general surgery residents through the scholarly process throughout the 5 years of training.

The residents review cases of patients with suboptimal outcomes during this formal peer review process. The conference will be designed to explicitly highlight all the 6 ACGME core competencies to prompt discussion on likely areas of improvement within this framework.Resident as Teacher: Seminars preparing residents for leadership and teaching roles.

Once a week a senior faculty from Holy Cross Hospital and the University of Miami hospital will lead a PBL format case discussion presented by a resident team.

UM Departmental Surgical Grand Rounds occurs every other Thursday via zoom. Lectures focused on addressing the advancement in the various surgical subspecialities.

These conferences focus on educating residents on the administrative, business, and cost-effective principles needed to practice medicine/surgery in today’s environment.