Annual Report 09 - MCCG General Surgery Residency
Annual Report 09 - MCCG General Surgery Residency Annual Report 09 - MCCG General Surgery Residency
Department of Surgery The general surgery residency had its start under its founding Program Director, Milford B. Hatcher, M.D., in 1958. Will C. Sealy, M.D., succeeded him in 1984. Internationally famous for his work in arrhythmia surgery, Dr. Sealy provided structure and rigor to the Department’s educational programs. In 1991, Martin Dalton, M.D., followed Dr. Sealy as Professor and Chair. Dr. Dalton, another nationally prominent cardiothoracic surgeon, had participated in the first human lung transplant during his training at the University of Mississippi with James Hardy, M.D. Dr. Dalton continued the academic growth of the Department, adding important clinical programs in trauma and critical care under Dennis Ashley, M.D., and surgical research under Walter Newman, Ph.D., and Zhongbiao Wang, M.D. The residency grew to four from two chief resident positions, and regularly won approval from the Residency Review Committee for Surgery. Milford B. Hatcher, M.D. With the selection of Dr. Dalton as the Dean of the School of Medicine at Mercer, Don Nakayama, M.D., a pediatric surgeon, was named the Milford B. Hatcher Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery in 2007. The Residency in Surgery currently has four categorical residents each year. It has been fully accredited by the Residency Review Committee for Surgery of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Its last approval was in 2006 for four years, with no citations. Will C. Sealy, M.D. Residents regularly finish with more than 1,000 to 1,200 operations during the five year training program, with extensive experience in all areas of general surgery. Residents enter fellowships in all major surgical specialties after training. The Surgery Department has six eight-week third year clerkships providing rotations in trauma, vascular, general and pediatric surgery. Full time and clinical faculty are actively engaged in teaching with didactic sessions, bedside rounds and operating room experience. The clerkship has a full time director responsible for the administration and evaluation of the clerkship. Fourth year clerkships are available in all surgical specialties. Martin L. Dalton, M.D. 2
Message from the Chair “May you live in interesting times.” It’s called the Chinese Curse, and it certainly describes what we have been facing as a nation during the past several months. (The corollary may be, “May you have an interesting case,” but that’s a subject for another issue.) Unemployment rates are high. Several of our most storied companies have declared bankruptcy. States struggle with billion-dollar deficits. The Federal treasury is trillions of dollars underwater. Medical education will be affected by this troubling economic milieu. The new Obama administration will be implementing sweeping changes in health care. There will be fundamental changes in how hospitals and physicians are paid. There will be more government involvement in health care, including how medical students are educated and residents are trained. The Mercer University School of Medicine has seen a seven percent decrease in state funds, their major source of revenue. The Medical Center of Central Georgia has undergone a five percent adjustment in operating expenses over the past year. Both institutions have made fundamental decisions that have resulted in layoffs and changes in how things are done. One thing has been preserved, however: Medical education. Both institutions have recognized that the training of tomorrow’s practicing health care providers is a core mission. The Department of Surgery has participated in budget adjustments of expenses and layoffs of personnel. With the support of the medical school and the hospital we have preserved all educational programs, both undergraduate and graduate, in essentially unchanged form. Residents’ salaries, benefits, and educational funds have been preserved. We watch what we spend much more closely, and we want to continue to be responsible stewards of the budgets we manage. As it turns out, no one has found the source of the Chinese Curse, or whether it’s necessarily Chinese in the first place. One possibility is a well known Chinese saying (courtesy of Wikipedia, a favorite source), " 时 势 造 英 雄 "(pinyin: shí shì zào yīng xióng), which means, “The times produce their heroes.” This quote is certainly one in which I can believe. Don K. Nakayama, M.D., M.B.A. Milford B. Hatcher Professor and Chair Department of Surgery Mercer University School of Medicine Program Director, Residency in Surgery 3
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Department of <strong>Surgery</strong><br />
The general surgery residency had its start under its founding<br />
Program Director, Milford B. Hatcher, M.D., in 1958. Will C.<br />
Sealy, M.D., succeeded him in 1984. Internationally famous for his<br />
work in arrhythmia surgery, Dr. Sealy provided structure and rigor<br />
to the Department’s educational programs.<br />
In 1991, Martin Dalton, M.D., followed Dr. Sealy as Professor<br />
and Chair. Dr. Dalton, another nationally prominent cardiothoracic<br />
surgeon, had participated in the first human lung transplant<br />
during his training at the University of Mississippi with James<br />
Hardy, M.D. Dr. Dalton continued the academic growth of the<br />
Department, adding important clinical programs in trauma and<br />
critical care under Dennis Ashley, M.D., and surgical research<br />
under Walter Newman, Ph.D., and Zhongbiao Wang, M.D. The<br />
residency grew to four from two chief resident positions, and<br />
regularly won approval from the <strong>Residency</strong> Review Committee for<br />
<strong>Surgery</strong>.<br />
Milford B. Hatcher, M.D.<br />
With the selection of Dr. Dalton as the Dean of the School of<br />
Medicine at Mercer, Don Nakayama, M.D., a pediatric surgeon,<br />
was named the Milford B. Hatcher Professor and Chair of the<br />
Department of <strong>Surgery</strong> in 2007.<br />
The <strong>Residency</strong> in <strong>Surgery</strong> currently has four categorical residents<br />
each year. It has been fully accredited by the <strong>Residency</strong> Review<br />
Committee for <strong>Surgery</strong> of the Accreditation Council for Graduate<br />
Medical Education. Its last approval was in 2006 for four years,<br />
with no citations.<br />
Will C. Sealy, M.D.<br />
Residents regularly finish with more than 1,000 to 1,200 operations<br />
during the five year training program, with extensive experience<br />
in all areas of general surgery. Residents enter fellowships in<br />
all major surgical specialties after training.<br />
The <strong>Surgery</strong> Department has six eight-week third year clerkships<br />
providing rotations in trauma, vascular, general and pediatric surgery.<br />
Full time and clinical faculty are actively engaged in teaching<br />
with didactic sessions, bedside rounds and operating room experience.<br />
The clerkship has a full time director responsible for the administration<br />
and evaluation of the clerkship. Fourth year clerkships<br />
are available in all surgical specialties.<br />
Martin L. Dalton, M.D.<br />
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