The UC Irvine Department of Surgery emphasizes six competence areas identified by the ACGME for organization of educational objectives and assessment methods:

1. Patient care that is compassionate, appropriate and effective for the treatment of health problems and the promotion of health.

2. Medical knowledge about established and evolving surgical sciences, as well as the application of this knowledge to patient care.

3. Practice-based learning and improvement that involves the investigation and evaluation of care for patients.

4. Interpersonal and communication skills that result in the effective exchange of information and collaboration with patients, their families and other health professionals.

5. Professionalism, as manifested in a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities, adhering to ethical principles and demonstrating sensitivity to patients of diverse backgrounds.

6. Systems-based practice, as manifested by actions that demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system of healthcare, as well as the ability to draw effectively on other resources in the system to provide optimal health care.

UC Irvine Medical Center

UC Irvine Medical Center is an academic medical center and principal clinical facility for the School of Medicine’s teaching and research programs. The following services are provided: medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, family medicine, pathology, radiology, ophthalmology, neurology, anesthesiology, and pain management and rehabilitation.

In addition, the medical center has cardiac, neonatal, respiratory, burn, and medical-surgical intensive care units. It is the designated countywide Level I tertiary trauma referral center.

Affiliate Teaching Hospitals

• Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Long Beach
• Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
• Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC)
• Kaiser Permanente in Anaheim

The residency curriculum is a two-year cycle with teaching conferences oriented to the curriculum. It includes standardized readings and a review of surgical text, basic science, surgical decision-making, AccessSurgery and the American College of Surgeons’ Surgical Education and Self-Assessment Program.

• Core Conferences – Meets Thursday mornings.
• Hepatobiliary Tumor Board – Meets first Monday of each month from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
• Transplant Journal Club – Meets fourth Monday of each month from 4 to 5 p.m.
• Breast Conference – Meets second and fourth Tuesday of each month from 12 to 1 p.m.
• Integrated GI/Med/Surg Conference – Meets first Wednesday of each month from 5 to 6 p.m.
• GI/Colorectal Conference – Meets Wednesdays except the first Wednesday of each month from 5 to 6 p.m.
• Vascular Conference Weekly – Meets Wednesdays from 5 to 6 p.m.
• Trauma/Critical Care Conference – Meets Thursdays from 2:30 to 4 p.m.

With a climate that ranges from 50 to 75 degrees in the winter and 60 to 90 degrees in the summer, and its close proximity to the mountains and the ocean, Orange County, California offers a wide variety of activities from skiing and snowboarding to surfing, sailing and other water sports. In fact, swimming, boating, surfing, skin diving and fishing are year-round sports. Irvine alone boasts expansive parks, scenic hiking, biking and jogging trails as well as public golf courses and tennis courts.

Hard core sports fans will enjoy frequent professional sporting events, including Angels’ baseball, the Anaheim Ducks for hockey and horseracing at the Santa Anita and Del Mar tracks.

Orange County is home to the nationally renowned South Coast Repertory, the Orange County Performing Arts Center, art museums, Knotts Berry Farm, Disneyland and California Adventure, as well as numerous performance venues.

Visitors to nearby Los Angeles will find some of the best entertainment facilities in the country, the Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, the Geffen Playhouse, Grauman’s Chinese Theater, the Kodak Theater and the Hollywood Bowl. A variety of smaller stage productions are also available in Hollywood and the nearby Melrose Avenue district. Extensive art collections are on view at the Los Angeles County, Norton Simon and Getty art museums, as well as at the Huntington Library, which is home to a world-class arboretum. There are also numerous smaller art galleries throughout the region.

The region’s extensive freeway system makes all of these activities readily accessible. San Diego, with Sea World, the prestigious San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park, and the U.S./Mexican border are only a two-hour drive away.

Department of Surgery Graduating Residents

Some graduating residents choose to pursue subspecialty fellowship training after residency. Several continue their training in plastic surgery. Many graduates choose to enter into private practice, group practice or join HMO organizations.

Below is a list of recent graduates and where they have gone:

Year of Graduation	Location	Specialty
2008	Fellowship, University of Florida	Minimally Invasive Surgery
2008	University of Arizona	Vascular Surgery
2008	University of CA, Irvine	Trauma/Critical Care
2008	Fellowship, Texas A&M	Vascular Surgery
2008	Orange County	Private Practice
2008	UCLA, Olive View Medical Center	Asst. Professor of Surgery
2007	Private Practice/Los Angeles, CA	General Surgery
2007	Fellowship, University of Chicago, IL	Vascular Surgery
2007	Fellowship, Baylor, Dallas, TX	Cardiothoracic
2007	Fellowship, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY	Vascular Surgery
2007	Fellowship, St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, PA	Pediatric Surgery
2007	Fellowship, Baylor Hospital, Dallas, TX	Colorectal
2006	Fellowship, Case Western University	Vascular Surgery
2006	Fellowship, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, IL	Colorectal
2006	Fellowship, University of Arizona Vascular	Surgery
2006	Private Practice, Santa Maria, CA	General Surgery
2006	Fellowship, Cleveland Clinic Foundations	Vascular Surgery
2006	Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh	Minimally Invasive Surgery
2005	Staff Surgeon, Kaiser, Maui	General Surgery
2005	Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX	General Surgery
2005	Fellowship, UC Los Angeles	Vascular Surgery
2005	Fellowship, UC Irvine	Gastrointestinal Surgery
2005	Fellowship, UC Irvine	Trauma/Critical Care
2004	Fellowship, Scripps Clinic, San Diego, California	Vascular Surgery
2004	Fellowship, Emory University	Cardiothoracic Surgery
2004	Fellowship, upon completion of service in U.S. Air Force	Vascular Surgery
2004	Fellowship, City of Hope	Oncology
2004	Fellowship, University of Utah	Vascular Surgery
2003	Resident, St. Louis University, MO (commencing in 2004)	Plastic Surgery
2003	Fellowship, UC Irvine	Trauma/Critical Care
2003	Fellowship, UC Irvine	Laparoscopy (Minimally Invasive Surgery)
2003	Fellowship, Baylor University Medical Center	Vascular Surgery
2003	Private Practice, Boston MA	General Surgery
2002	Private Practice/Southern Orange County, California	General Surgery
2002	Staff Surgeon, Kaiser Bellflower	General Surgery
2002	Fellowship, Emory University	Cardiothoracic Surgery
2002	Fellowship, UC San Francisco	Cardiothoracic Surgery
2002	Fellowship, UC Irvine	Trauma/Critical Care
2001	Surgeon, U.S. Air Force	General Surgery
2001	Fellowship, UC Irvine	Trauma/Critical Care
2001	Residency, UC Los Angeles	Plastic Surgery
2001	Private Practice/Southern California	General Surgery
2000	Private Practice/Nashville, TN	General Surgery
2000	Private Practice/Southern California	General Surgery
2000	Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas	Cardiothoracic Surgery
2000	Faculty UC Irvine	General Surgery
2000	Private Practice/Southern California	General Surgery
1999	Fellowship, University of Massachusetts	Vascular Surgery
1999	Fellowship, Loma Linda University Medical Center	Vascular Surgery
1999	Fellowship, USC	Endoscopic Surgery
1999	Fellowship, UC Los Angeles	Vascular Surgery
1999	Fellowship, Pennsylvania Hospital	Vascular Surgery