for Students, Residents,
and Applicants
This page contains information about the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency Program. We are presently accepting applications for 2006. The program applications can be requested from:
The
National Residency Match Program
2501 M. Street NW, Suite 1
Washington, D.C. 20037
(202) 862-6077
NYPH NRMP Code: 1492
Or on line at:
http://www.nrmp.org
CONTACT INFORMATION
phone: 212-746-5174
email: ctsurgery-resident@med.cornell.edu
Jeannette Torres, Program Coordinator
Doug Ginn, Assistant Program Coordinator
GENERAL
DESCRIPTION OF OUR PROGRAM
The
residency-training program in cardiothoracic surgery is two years
in length, and upon successful completion, leads to eligibility
for the American Board of Thoracic Surgery Examination. Applicants
to the thoracic surgery residency program must have completed a
residency in surgery and either be eligible for or successfully
have taken, the examination given by The American Board of Surgery.
While a background including basic research experience is desirable,
this is not mandatory.
Three residents are selected each year to begin a Thoracic Residency
on July 1. Two are in a cardiac track and one is in a non-cardiac
track. The first year includes experience at both Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center and at The New York Presbyterian Hospital. The length
of time that the individual resident spends on these two services
is flexible to some extent, depending on the resident's primary
interest, whether cardiac or non-cardiac. During the time spent
at Memorial Hospital, the resident is the ranking member of the
Thoracic Surgery House Staff. This service affords the resident
a voluminous experience in endoscopies and surgical treatment of
diseases of the lung, esophagus, mediastinum and chest wall.
The first year at New York Presbyterian Hospital is spent performing
cardiac and non-cardiac thoracic surgery, seeing consultations for
the Thoracic Surgery service and making rounds with the Chief of
Service. Over 1,600 open heart surgery cases are performed per year;
of this total approximately 850 are coronary artery bypass grafts.
Approximately 10% of the total are pediatric cardiac cases; approximately
10% are non-pump cases and 90% are pump cases. This volume provides
ample exposure and opportunity to participate as primary surgeon
as well as first assistant in all areas of cardiac surgery, including
mitral and aortic valve replacements, myocardial revascularization,
congenital cardiac surgery and arrhythmia surgery.
Out-patient office visits including consultations, post-operative
appointments, and re-evaluations number approximately 3,400 per
year. The residents are present during patient office hours and
assist in the care of the patients.
The
second year is spent, for the two cardiac track residents, as the
Chief House Officer on the Cardiothoracic Service at The New York
Presbyterian Hospital. Provisions usually can be made, however,
for those residents who are interested more specifically in the
non-cardiac areas of surgery, to spend additional time at Memorial
Hospital. The non-cardiac track resident will spend half of the
second year at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital and half at another
program elective.
The full-time members in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at The New
York Presbyterian Hospital are: O. Wayne Isom, M.D., Karl H. Krieger, M.D.,
Nasser K. Altorki, M.D., Wilson Ko, M.D., Anthony Tortolani, M.D., Leonard N.
Girardi, M.D., Jeffrey L. Port, M.D., Leonard Young Lee,
M.D., Charles Mack, M.D., Robert Korst, M.D., Jonathan Chen, M.D., Paul Lee,
M.D., and Mark Adkins, M.D.
The Memorial Hospital full-time attending faculty members include: Manjit
Bains, M.D., Valerie Rusch, M.D., Robert Downey, M.D., Raja Flores, M.D.,
Bernard Park, M.D., and Nabil Rizk, M.D.
There are fours weeks paid vacation per year for each resident and
the resident is given an annual expense paid trip to one of the
major thoracic surgical meetings. The on-call schedule is every
other night, every other weekend.
Weekly conferences include: Pediatric/Cardiac Surgical Conference,
Thoracic Mortality and Morbidity Conference, Adult Cardiac Catheterization
Conference, Surgical Grand Rounds, General Surgery Mortality and
Morbidity Conference, and Walking Rounds with the Chief of the Division
and the entire cardiothoracic team. Monthly meetings include a Combined
Thoracic Didactic Conference and a Combined Thoracic-Pulmonary Surgical
Conference.
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