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Akane Naka, Project Manager | December 26, 2006
Years 4 and 5: Senior and Chief Residence
In the fourth year, residents move to senior responsibility under direct faculty supervision during clinical rotations in general, pediatric, vascular, oncology and gastrointestinal surgery at Tisch.
In the fifth year, chief surgical residents rotate through Bellevue, Tisch, and the VA hospitals on the general, vascular and trauma services. Chief residents have broad responsibilities which include administration of the service, teaching junior residents, organization of conferences, pre- and post- hospitalization care and follow-up of patients, and independent performance of major operative procedures under faculty supervision.

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The assistant chief and senior resident rotations provide the base of knowledge and experience leading to the chief residency and progressing naturally from a supervised to a supervisory role.
Preliminary Program
Residents may also be accepted for one or two years of basic surgical training prior to training in a surgical specialty. There are 10 preliminary positions.
Residents who have been accepted into a preliminary program in conjunction with the departments of otolaryngology, urology, and neurosurgery have programs which are designed by the specialty departments.
The two-year basic surgery residency for non-designated preliminary residents is a comprehensive program designed to prepare residents for their area of concentration.
Listed below are the specialty programs in surgery available at New York University School of Medicine. Interested applicants should contact the individual specialties for additional information and applications.
Conferences
The Department of Surgery strongly supports surgical education through multiple conferences. It offers an extensive weekly conference schedule that meets the needs of residents in a variety of ways. Services at all hospitals have teaching rounds and conferences at least weekly. Section conferences in general, vascular, pediatric, oncology, breast, trauma, and reconstructive plastic surgery are held in conjunction with related disciplines. The major conferences for the department include weekly mortality and morbidity and basic surgical science conference. The mortality and morbidity conference has proven to be a particularly valuable teaching experience. In addition, Journal Clubs and Case Review conferences are held on a regular basis in many services.