Clinical Experience
Yale Department of Surgery prides itself on providing residents with unparalleled breadth and depth of hands-on surgical experience. Residents rotate thorugh four training hospitals. Each of these hospitals provides a unique educational experience. After spending time at our community and VA hospitals, our residents become proficient in a wide variety of surgical procedures needed to practice independently after graduation. At the same time, the experience in our tertiary referral hospitals provides a depth of experience needed to perform complex operations.
YNHH York Street Campus
- High-volume tertiary referral center
- Level 1 trauma center
- Exposure to operative blunt and penetrating trauma
- Smilow Cancer Hospital
- Complex hepatobiliary oncology, melanoma, soft tissue sarcoma, endocrine neoplasia, thoracic oncology
- Use of robotic surgery for cancer operations
- Yale New Haven Transplantation Center
- Liver, Kidney, Pancreas transplants
- Pediatric liver transplantation center
- Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital
- Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center
- Complex pediatric surgical oncology
- Regional Neonatal Center for Southern Connecticut- 55 bed neonatal intensive care unit
- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) program
- Heart and Vascular Center
- Wide range of open and endovascular experiences
- Artis Zeego hybrid operating room for combined open and endovascular operations
- Wide range of open and endovascular experiences
YNHH Chapel Street Campus
- Yale Bariatric Surgery Center
- Robotic Colorectal Surgery
- Complex Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
- Comprehensive Endoscopy Center
Veterans Administration Medical Center
- General Surgery
- Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery
- Robotic Thoracic Surgery
- Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Bridgeport Hospital
- Connecticut Burn Center and Burn Critical Care Unit
- Burn surgery, complex burn reconstruction, burn trauma, burn-related critical care
- Level 2 Trauma Center
- Exposure to blunt and penetrating trauma
- Dedicated Outpatient Surgical Center
- General Pediatric Surgery
- Complex Surgical Oncology
- Advanced Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery
- The Center for Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Medicine