Resident Experience - PGY 1

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PGY 1:

First year residents will receive an introduction to patient care, critical care medicine, and pathways and technical skills of critical care. Supervised in a university hospital setting at Hermann Hospital, LBJ Hospital, and M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, residents will be exposed to the general surgery program and sub disciplines such as cardiovascular surgery, neurosurgery, renal transplant surgery, general surgery, trauma surgery, medical and surgical ICU care and procedure rotations. An introduction to surgical operating room techniques, basic patient evaluation, differential diagnosis, recognizing the "sick" patient, recognizing surgical complications, techniques of intravenous and arterial access and monitoring, and respiratory support and management will provide residents a backbone to surgical patient care as well as and electrolyte/nutritional management and hemo-dynamic monitoring. Residents will master the "introduction to mastery of hospital systems" related to patient care, vagaries of function of the inpatient floors, laboratory, radiology and cardiology areas, anesthesia, and the various other services with which interaction occurs.

By end of year, the resident should be able to provide basic and intensive care in the institutional environment where that care takes place easily and confidently and in judgment of his or her supervisors competently.