Vascular Surgery Integrated Residency Program – Educational Curriculum:

The residency program provides a balanced curriculum consisting of clinical and didactic education.  The residents will develop skill in the treatment of vascular disease for both inpatient and outpatient settings. Our educational program integrates core competencies including:

  • Patient care
  • Medical knowledge
  • Practice-based learning and improvement
  • Interpersonal and communication skills
  • Professionalism
  • Systems-based practice

 

The vascular resident will develop an understanding of evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and the incorporation of research within clinical practice.

Residents will receive substantial exposure, through didactics and hands-on experience within the vascular laboratory, to sit for the ARDMS exam and achieve RPVI certification. 

Vascular Surgery Conferences

Vascular Surgery Case Conference:

Held weekly on Wednesdays at 10am, this conference is attending by all vascular surgery faculty, residents, and fellows.  Residents present interesting cases for discussion and review.  These presentations are supported with review of all contemporary imaging.

Vascular Surgery Teaching Conference:

Held weekly on Wednesdays at 11am, this conference focuses on a defined topic for the week, based on the VSCORE curriculum, and includes a student, resident or fellow presentation followed by discussion.

Vascular Surgery Morbidity and Mortality:

This bi-weekly conference is held on Wednesdays at 11:30 and attended by all vascular surgery faculty and trainees.  All service complications are discussed with review of pertinent literature. 

Harbor-UCLA Limb Alliance (HULA):

This weekly conference is held on Wednesdays during the block of vascular surgery conferences.  This is a patient-centered review of patients being actively co-managed by vascular surgery and the limb salvage services.

Department of Surgery Conferences

Morbidity and Mortality:

Held weekly on Wednesdays at 7:30AM, this conference is attended by all surgical residents and faculty.  Residents present selected complications and review related literature.

Grand Rounds

Held monthly on Wednesdays at 8:30AM, this conference is attended by all surgical residents and faculty.  The focus of this conference is the present current advances in surgical therapy.

GI conference
Held weekly on Wednesdays at 11:15AM, complex hepatobiliary, pancreatic, upper GI, and colorectal cases are presented by the medical and surgical services for multidisciplinary discussion on management.

Endocrine
This conference is held monthly. Complex thyroid, parathyroid, pancreatic neuroendocrine, and adrenal cases are presented by the endocrine and surgical services (ENT and GI/Onc) for multidisciplinary management.

Multidisciplinary Tumor Boards
General and Breast. Each conference is held weekly, General on Wednesdays at Noon and Breast on Tuesdays at 12:30PM. Attended by Medical Oncology, Surgery, Radiology, Pathology and other ancillary services, cancer cases are discussed.

Pulmonary Conference
Held weekly on Tuesday afternoon, pulmonary cases are presented by the pulmonary service and thoracic surgery services.

Trauma Conference
Held weekly, trauma topics are presented by rotating residents and cases are discussed. Each month, this conference is combined with the emergency medicine residents.

ABSITE Review
This conference is attended by all surgery residents and focuses on the in-training exam. Topics are presented by the faculty every two weeks on Wednesdays at 8:30AM. A short quiz is distributed in advance to the residents and the answers are reviewed by the group.

Case Based Review
Faculty present cases for the residents to work through as a group, focusing on standards in diagnosis and therapy of surgical diseases.

Journal Club
Research residents take sides on a controversial topic in surgery, presenting key articles to support their “side” of the argument in a point-counterpoint format.

Mock Oral Boards
Senior residents take the ‘hot seat’ in front of an audience of surgical faculty and residents, responding to mock oral board scenarios.

Multidisciplinary Intern Lecture Series
Held every Tuesday at 11:30AM for the first three months of the year, this conference focuses on high yield topics in patient care applicable to the Intern Year and passing the USMLE Step III exam.