The program admits one resident per year and has nine active teaching staff members. Fellows will perform a wide variety of abdominal and anorectal surgery. The fellow will be personally involved in roughly 200 abdominal colon procedures, 350 anorectal procedures, and 500 colonoscopies.

This is a very active, academically oriented program that not only will teach the fellow advanced colorectal procedures (such as IBD surgery and anal sphincter salvage surgery), but also provide a solid foundation for office-based and operative management of common anorectal disease.

Approximately 250 patients are seen in the office each week. During clinic and office hours, there will be a one-to-one teaching ratio with an experienced colorectal surgeon. New and established patients will be assessed with the attending surgeon.
Since he/she also participates in inpatient care, this gives the fellow the opportunity to follow patients before, during and after surgery. Anoscopy, rigid and flexible sigmoidoscopy, sclerotherapy, infrared photocoagulation and rubber band ligation of hemorrhoids, and minor office-based anorectal procedures will be performed. The resident has a supervised teaching clinic at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center one afternoon each week.

There is a fully-accredited residency in General Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. General surgery residents rotate on the colon and rectal service continually. The colon and rectal surgery fellow is expected to participate in the education and training of general surgical residents at various levels. There is no in-house call for the colorectal fellow.

The Fellow will attend the following: Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Conference (weekly), Colorectal Surgery Clinical Case Conference (weekly), Journal Club (monthly), Core Text Review Conference (weekly), General Surgery Morbidity and Mortality Conference (weekly), General Surgery Grand Rounds (weekly).

The fellow will learn and personally perform anorectal manometry, pudendal nerve studies, anorectal biofeedback and anorectal ultrasound.

The fellow will be encouraged to pursue a number of research projects and publish at least two research papers during the year. The fellow will be sponsored to attend the yearly national American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons meeting and all meetings of the Southern California Chapter of Colorectal Surgeons. Other national or regional meetings will be sponsored if a paper has been accepted for presentation.

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