The Geisinger Health System Division of Surgery offers a 12-month postgraduate physician assistant residency program in general surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, orthopedic surgery, and selected subspecialties. The physician assistant residents will receive their supervised training at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, and Geisinger Wyoming Valley, in Wilkes-Barre
The program combines a didactic curriculum throughout all clinical rotations consisting of scheduled lectures in relation to assigned readings. In addition to lectures, weekly conferences will be held and PA residents are expected to attend and participate. The weekly conferences include
- surgical grand rounds
- morbidity and mortality
- surgical oncology tumor conference
Daily morning conferences of orthopedic medical educational will also be attended while on the orthopedic rotation. Cardiothoracic monthly clinical forum and the cardiothoracic bi-monthly morbidity and mortality conferences will be attended while on the CTVS Rotation. PA residents will also complete training for certification of advanced trauma life support; ATLS, and pediatric advance life support; PALS.
The 12-month clinical rotations will be divided as follows: four months in general surgery with focus on trauma, MIS, surgical oncology. Three months will be spent in cardiothoracic surgery. Three months will be spent in orthopedic surgery. The final two months of the residency will be spent in elective rotations. Elective rotations will include
- colorectal
- pediatrics
- transplant
- plastic surgery
- vascular, trauma
- surgical oncology
- minimally invasive
- bariatrics
- orthopedics
- CTVS
The workload and duties will include history and physical exam taking and documenting, completing progress notes, evaluating patients, performing daily rounds on inpatients, ordering diagnostic tests and/or laboratory studies, assisting in the operating room, and performing minor procedures. The PA resident will also participate in nighttime call with the physician resident staff and the PA staff.
A clinical skills lab will be offered and required for furthering hands on clinical skills. Virtual laparoscopy, suturing practice, pelvic and breast models are just a few things offered by the skills lab.
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For more information contact Nevin Gorki, PA-C.
