EXPECTATION FOR RESIDENT SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY - SINAI HOSPITAL SURGERY ROTATION 2006/07

To fulfill the expectations of the ACGME and Department of Surgery at Sinai the residents will attend the following educational activities while rotating at Sinai Hospital:

Time	Tuesday of the month
	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
7:00 - 8:00 AM	M&M	M&M	M&M	TM&M	M&M
8:00 - 9:00 AM	CC	CC	CC	TB	CC
9:00 - 10:00 AM	RL	AN	RL	PAR	JC
10:00AM -2:00 PM	Office Hours, Hoffberger 4th floor

CC = Core Curriculum, M&M = M&M conference, TM&M = Trauma M&M, AN = Anatomy, RL = Resident Lecture, TB = Tumor board, PAR = PA-resident meeting, JC = Journal Club

Surgery M&M: every Tuesday morning at 7:00 AM; the chief resident is expected to report all cases with morbidity and/or mortality to Suzanne Mosteller, administrative assistant to Dr. Barbul (410-601-5547) before noon time on Friday before the actual M&M conference. Faculty may add cases of interest. The chief resident(s) is (are) responsible to check the final list in advance and assign individual cases for presentation to the residents rotating at Sinai; the residents should review the patient�s medical record and abstract significant information for presentation. The chief resident(s) is (are) responsible to assure that pertinent radiologic studies are available for the conference. Each case presented should be accompanied by a one page or less write-up by the resident. PowerPoint presentation is not necessary but may aid in the presentation of complicated cases. The chief resident is responsible to bring the sign-in book to the conference.

1. Trauma M&M: every 4th Tuesday of the month instead of Surgery M&M, at 7:00 AM; the chief resident is expected to confirm all cases with morbidity and/or mortality to the trauma coordinator Patricia Lubbert (410-806-0686) before noon time on Friday before the actual M&M conference and then report these cases to Suzanne Mosteller (see above). Faculty may add cases of interest. The chief resident(s) is (are) responsible to check the final list in advance and assign individual cases for presentation to the residents rotating at Sinai; the residents should review the patient�s medical record and abstract significant information for presentation. The chief resident(s) is (are) responsible to assure that pertinent radiologic studies are available for the conference. Each case presented should be accompanied by a one page or less write-up. PowerPoint presentation is not necessary but may aid in the presentation of complicated cases. The chief resident is responsible to bring the sign-in book to the conference.
   
   
2. Resident Lecture: 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month at 9:00 AM; the chief resident(s) is (are) expected to select topics from Greenfield to be reviewed and presented by the residents.  The presentation also should incorporate an up-to-date review of the pertinent literature (benchmark papers and/or new/controversial publications). The presentation can but does not have to be associated with a case from the current M&M list and/or current inpatient list. To assure a logical sequence and variety of presentations, the chief resident should discuss the proposed topic list with Drs. Barbul or Genuit prior to preparing the presentations.  The lecture should be prepared as MS PowerPoint presentation. More than one resident may participate in a given presentation.
   
   
3. Tumor Board: every 4th Tuesday at 8:00 instead of core curriculum; held at the cancer center conference room 1st floor.  The chief resident on the Red Service will be contacted by Dr. Didolkar or his office during the prior week to assign cases that need to be presented.  He/she will assign the cases to the Red Service residents. Information on the patients to be presented can be obtained at Dr. Didolkar�s office.  The presenting resident is expected to prepare the patients key facts in a brief PowerPoint presentation.  For interesting cases / topics, the resident should review the most current literature and may add results from interesting studies to the PowerPoint.  The overall presentation should be kept < 5-10 minutes.  Other Faculty may assign cases.
   
   
4. Anatomy Lab: every 2nd Tuesday at 9:00, 3rd floor Pathology lab; The chief resident is responsible to in advance discuss with Drs. Efron or Barbul which area of interest should be dissected and disseminate this information to all members of his/her team, so that all residents and mid-level providers have a chance to review the pertinent anatomy before the dissection.  Since this is a hands-on, one-one-one experience it is expected that all participants independently review the pertinent anatomy prior to the lab.
   
   
5. Core Curriculum: every Tuesday at 8:00 (except 4th Tuesday); Sinai Faculty will give lectures on General Surgery topics, following the outline of a major surgical textbook and incorporating current literature reviews; the topics will repeat on a 2 year cycle. The residents are expected to review the topic presented before the lecture to enhance the learning experience and discussions.
   
   
6. Sinai Grand Rounds: Thursdays 7:00, please see current schedule for specific topics and guest professors.
   
   
7. Hopkins Grand Rounds and Animal Operatory Lab: Thursdays at 7:00, Hopkins Campus, once a month as scheduled. Residents will attend the Surgery Grand Rounds and afterwards participate in hands-on learning of operative skills.  The residents are responsible to review the topic and operative techniques
   
   
8. Other educational activities the residents may attend as their time permits: Tumor lunch conference, Friday�s at noon - Drs. Didolkar and Chu have the specific information about dates, times and locations; Multi-disciplinary Thoracic clinic, Wednesday afternoon - Dr.s Skaryak and Reeder have specifics on times and location; Multi-disciplinary GI Cancer clinic - Dr. Chu has specifics on times and location; Medicine Grand Rounds, Thursdays 9:00 - 10:00 AM, Zamoiski auditorium - topics available in residency coordinator office;
   
   
9. Outpatient involvement / Continuity of care: The ACGME requires at least one outpatient day per week and maximization of continuity of care; to achieve this the residents are expected to spend Tuesdays in the Surgery Associates office hours beginning after core curriculum, until 4:00 PM and attend the Sinai Surgery clinic Friday�s at 11:30 AM; the chief resident is responsible to assure attendance of all residents that are not on post-call leave.