Education
Surgery rounds used to include a one-hour midday conference, followed by rounding in-person on the patients who were presented and discussed in conference. Typically, this presentation would be of an interesting surgical or clinic patient. If none was available that week, then a common surgical patient presentation was discussed in detail. Subspecialties covered included obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, radiology, cardiology, general surgery, plastic proctology, ENT, urology, thoracic surgery, cardiovascular surgery, orthopedic surgery, anesthesia, medicine and pathology. There was also a Journal Club. Three hours of outpatient clinic was expected per week. It was also noted on their contracts that the residents were expected to teach interns and student nurses rotating through the services.
Operative Logs
From the surgical case logs, you can see the breadth of general surgery procedures available. The older case logs from 1958 show the cases done by a single resident.
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