Moisés - Primer año
This is a PGY-4 or a PGY-6 rotation providing residents with a three-month plastic surgery experience. The Moses campus provides both junior and senior-level operative experience in plastic surgery cases. The residents are exposed to their own patients in the clinic population that provides a broad range of reconstructive patients, as well as a strong source of aesthetic, hand, craniofacial and microsurgery plastic surgery cases of all varieties.
Los objetivos de esta rotación son:
- To participate in a sophisticated university-based plastic surgery team that includes a uniquely diverse and busy pediatric plastic surgery practice at its Children’s Hospital, as well as complex head and neck, extremity and peripheral nerve reconstructions.
- To learn to evaluate plastic surgery patients.
- To learn management of plastic surgery patients on the wards.
- To learn management of the post-operative patient.
- To have introductory level operative experience in plastic surgery cases.
- To participate in all seminars, lectures and conferences conducted by the Division of Plastic Surgery.
- To work under the direction of the Chief Resident to facilitate all of the above.
- To learn from and participate in the care of emergency cases in one of the busiest emergency departments in the country.
At the conclusion of the rotation, the resident should have an understanding of:
- Defectos congénitos de la cabeza y el cuello, incluyendo labio leporino y paladar hendido, y cirugía craneofacial.
- Neoplasias de cabeza y cuello, incluida la orofaringe, y la importancia de la endoscopia en el manejo de estos casos.
- Traumatismos craneomaxilofaciales, incluidas fracturas.
- Cirugía estética (cosmética) de cabeza y cuello, tronco y extremidades.
- Cirugía plástica de mama.
- Cirugía de la mano/extremidades superiores.
- Cirugía plástica de las extremidades inferiores.
- Cirugía plástica de defectos congénitos y adquiridos del tronco y los genitales.
- Técnicas microquirúrgicas aplicables a la cirugía plástica.
- Reconstrucción mediante transferencia de tejidos, incluyendo colgajos e injertos.
- Cirugía de lesiones benignas y malignas de la piel y los tejidos blandos.
