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Sponsor: New York Medical College

Overview

Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers - Manhattan is one of two Academic Medical Centers of New York Medical College and is located in New York City's Greenwich Village section of lower Manhattan. St Vincent's Manhattan has 780 beds, 17 operating rooms and is the fourth largest voluntary hospital in New York City.

Since St. Vincent's Manhattan is an Academic Medical Center of New York Medical College it is afforded the status of a University Hospital, and all faculty have academic appointments at the medical college.

St. Vincent's Manhattan not only offers training programs in medicine and surgery and the surgical subspecialties but also has a School of Medical Technology, including gastroenterology, cardiology, critical care, pulmonology, nephrology and med- peds, and an Institute of Emergency Care.

St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan is a member of the EMS Emergency Ambulance Service and is responsible for ambulance and emergency services in an area of four and one half square miles on Manhattan's lower Westside. St. Vincent's is also a New York State designated Level I Trauma Center, the only trauma center on the lower Westside of Manhattan and receives all major traumas in the area. There are intensive care units for cardiac surgery, trauma, general surgery, medicine, neurosurgery, and neonatology.

The Surgical Residency program is a five-year program, which is approved by the American Board of Surgery, and accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, which provides broad training in general surgery. There are six categorical residents and approximately fourteen preliminary residents accepted into the program each year. Preliminary residents come from urology, orthopedic, ENT, radiology, rehabilitative medicine, as well as anesthesia and other specialties.
 
The surgical program at St. Vincent's Manhattan has an active residency-training program with a structured curriculum that consists of formal weekly conferences with the Program Director and teaching faculty, along with weekly rounds held in each specialty, including the intensive care unit. Morbidity and Mortality conference and Grand Round lectures are held weekly with the Chairman of the department of surgery.

The residency is a graduated program of increasing responsibility in patient care and in operative surgery. Along with broad base exposure to general surgery, first and second year surgical residents have the opportunity to rotate on urology, plastic surgery, otolaryngology and neurosurgery as well as work in the outpatient surgery department under the supervision of teaching faculty who are certified in those fields. Furthermore, the residency training program also includes the potential for doing basic or clinical research, which includes preparation of scientific papers and abstracts for publication.