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Scott & White

Emergency Trauma Service (ETS)
This service admits all trauma and emergency general surgery patients and sees all hospital consults. The interns take in-house 28-30 hour shifts every fourth night and average five days off a month. Upper level residents work alternating 24 hour shifts with six days off per month.

Private Service
This service manages all elective surgery patients, including general, endocrine, breast, oncologic, laparoscopic, colorectal and bariatric surgery. Call is taken from home.

Vascular Surgery Service
This service has a junior and senior resident and often an off-service intern. Both endovascular and open vascular surgery is performed. Call is taken from home.

Pediatric Surgery Service
Residents rotate on this service as a PGY-1 and PGY-3. Call is every other night and weekend from home. The referral area for this busy service is large, and complex as well as common surgery is performed.

Thoracic Surgery Service
Residents rotate on this service as a PGY-2 and PGY-3. Progressive operative responsibility is given for harvesting vein, opening the chest, lung and esophageal resection, and heart cannulation. Call is taken from home.

Transplant Surgery
The transplant surgery division performs kidney and pancreas transplantation at Scott & White. This service provides organ procurement at Scott & White. The service additionally provides vascular access for a large Scott & White dialysis population with units located in  Killeen, Temple and Round Rock. General surgical problems involving transplant patients are also handled by this service.

The program is staffed by a single transplant surgeon and two transplant nephrologists. Surgical residents will be involved with both outpatient and inpatient care of the transplant recipient and surgical procedures based upon their technical expertise. PGY-3 residents will spend a month with this service to gain knowledge and experience in the care of the immunocompromised patient.

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Residents are assigned to either the vascular, thoracic or general surgery service and function as chief of that service. PGY-2 and PGY-3 residents may be the primary surgeon on a lung resection, carotid endarterectomy or colon resection. Residents perform their own arteriograms, gain experience with endoscopy and manage their own clinic. Call is every third night and weekend from home.

Urology
The PGY-1 resident has no specific call duties on the urology service. The intern is responsible for assisting the urology resident with in-house patient care as well as assisting in the operating room.

SICU
This service manages all patients in the SICU, including general, trauma, neurosurgical, urological, orthopedic, plastic, and gynecological surgery patients. The service is multidisciplinary, consisting of general surgery and anesthesia residents, and is staffed by surgeons and an anesthesiologist.

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