Stanford School of Medicine
General Surgery In the Department of Surgery

Operative Experience

Junior residents at Stanford perform 100-300 cases per year beginning in the PGY-1 year. When you visit us you will have the opportunity to speak with our residents for details of their individual experiences.

A finishing Chief Resident at Stanford will, on average, have performed more than 1200 operations and will have had an excellent personal experience in all of the primary components of General Surgery.

AVERAGE 5-YEAR OPERATIVE EXPERIENCE

GI

225 cases

Abdomen

200 cases

Oncologic

200 cases

Vascular

200 cases

Breast

100 cases

Pediatric

79 cases

Skin and soft tissue

40 cases

Endocrine

50 cases

 

 

Total

1,085 cases

 

AVERAGE OPERATIVE EXPERIENCE

FOR PGY-1 (INTERN)

Vascular

30 cases

Abdominal

21 cases

GI

19 cases

Breast

18 cases

Skin & soft tissue

10 cases

Pediatric

5 cases

Head & neck

4 cases

Plastic surgery

2 cases

Miscellaneous

13 cases

Endoscopy

3 cases

 

 

Average

125 cases

 

 

 

 

 

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