Prospective Residents: Clinical Sites

The University of Connecticut medical campus includes John Dempsey Hospital (the university hospital) and the administrative offices of the residency. The surgical service at the university includes experience in surgical oncology, vascular and endovascular surgery, and advanced laparoscopic surgery. The signature programs at the University emphasize translational research.

Hartford Hospital has an annual admission volume of 39,000 patients and performs 25,000 surgical procedures annually. It is one of the nation’s largest voluntary, not-for-profit hospitals. The 55-person Department of Surgery, comprising general surgery, plastic, cardiac, thoracic, vascular, transplant, and trauma (level I trauma center) sections, accounts for more than 10,000 cases each year. More than half of our residents are on assignment at Hartford Hospital at any given time.

St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center is the largest Catholic teaching hospital in New England. Its surgical volume exceeds 8,000 cases per year. Within St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center is a cancer center, the Hoffman Heart and Vascular Institute (performing 1,000 cardiac surgeries per year), and a level II trauma center.

The annual surgical case volume at Hospital of Central Connecticut exceeds 11,000, with more than 50 percent being done in the advanced hospital-based ambulatory surgery unit.

Experience in pediatric surgery is provided through Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford. Education and supervision is provided by five board-certified pediatric surgeons. The spectrum of pediatric surgical cases is quite broad, and includes head and neck, non-cardiac thoracic, GI, abdominal, endocrine, oncology, gynecology, and non-reconstructive urology. Pediatric trauma care is provided in a joint trauma center with Hartford Hospital. A large volume of minimally invasive surgery is performed. Patients range in age from newborns through adolescents. Prenatal consultations are performed in conjunction with maternal fetal medicine.

An active clinical and basic science research program is available for resident involvement.