This blog post is authored by Chris Wyatt, M.D., program director of the Emergency Medicine Residency, and Shannon Southerland, program coordinator of the General Surgery Residency.
With spring well underway, we want to take a moment to highlight the productive season that our residents have had thus far and their participation in a number of events, presentations and competitions across the country.
In February, the General Surgery Residency hosted a career day for Westlake High School. Residents from the program and Tatiana Cardenas, M.D., the residency’s associate director, shared their career paths, discussed basic surgical procedures and did a Q&A with students.
Also in February, fourth-year general surgery residents Charlie Hill and Simin Roward won the Resident Surgical Skills competition at the annual meeting held by the South Texas Chapter of the American College of Surgeons. Their win came against a field of residents from other Texas general surgery programs. In addition to her win, Roward presented “A Clean Sweep: Initial Experience With a Novel Intercavity Laparoscopic Cleaning Device” and “Fevers, Pathogens and Antibiotics in Severely Injured Trauma Patients With Hospital Acquired Infections.”
Emergency medicine residents Andrew Partain, Christine Pack and Erin Lincoln, and emergency medical services fellow Melissa Miller, represented the Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care at the National Association of EMS Physicians annual meeting held in San Diego, California.
Second-year general surgery resident Josh Craps presented “Chest X-Ray is Not a Reliable Screening Tool for Blunt Thoracic Aortic Injury — Results From the AAST/ATF Prospective BTAI Registry” at the Western Trauma Association annual meeting in Big Sky, Montana.
Back at the South Texas annual meeting in Houston, fourth-year general surgery resident Charlie Hill had two presentations — “Finding Relief for the Self Conscious Esophagus: LARS and EHAS” and “Large Paraesophageal Hernia Repair Durability Is Improved With Biosynthetic Mesh in Mid-Term Follow-Up.” He also had a poster titled “Volume Matters: Actual vs. Predicted Outcomes in LARS in an Elderly Cohort,” and he participated in the Resident Surgical Jeopardy and Resident Surgical Skills competitions.
Also at the South Texas annual meeting, fourth-year general surgery resident Kris Olson participated in the Resident Surgical Jeopardy competition and presented “Rule of Four: a Value-Based Approach to Aortic Stent-Graft Inventory Creation for the Treatment of Blunt Thoracic Aortic Injuries Using Real Patient Aortic Measurements.”