Surgery

About the Department

Over time, full-time faculty members with clinical and academic interests have been added, and the department remains committed to continued development of these clinical and academic programs. Community volunteer surgeons will continue to be active faculty in our department as teachers and trainers of medical students and residents. At the same time, we are dedicated to growing and enhancing the numbers of academic full-time faculty who will participate in clinical programmatic growth, be active leaders in the teaching and the training of medical students and residents and actively participate in academic and scholarly activities including both basic science and clinical research.

The department and the General Surgery Residency Training Program will continue to function in five hospitals in the Dayton area. These hospitals are Miami Valley Hospital, Kettering Medical Center, the Dayton VA Medical Center, Dayton Children's Hospital and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Medical Center. Integration of the Air Force residency program with the Wright State University program has been a very successful collaboration. This is a mutually beneficial relationship which the department values and will continue.

The undergraduate curriculum in the Department of Surgery is oriented around providing students exposure to an education about surgical patients and diseases that will enable them to function appropriately in their chosen career. Third-year medical students have an eight-week general surgery clerkship and a two-week subspecialty clerkship. This is carried out across the spectrum of all hospitals.

Our residency is geared to accomplish several goals. It is one of our goals that all residents finishing our training program be prepared and sufficiently trained to immediately enter a practice of general surgery should that be their desire. Maintaining the experience with a variety of surgeons, academic, community, VA-based and Air Force, ensures that we meet this first goal. We also feel strongly that our residents should be competitive for advanced residencies and/or fellowship training programs. Finally, we are committed to providing the foundation for an academic career for those who wish to enter academic surgery. This means providing research opportunities for those that are interested which is why we have at least one dedicated research position each year, and the capability to provide this opportunity for others if desired.

Program Divisions

• Burn Surgery
• General Surgery
• Otolaryngology
• Surgical Oncology
• Thoracic Surgery
• Transplantation
• Trauma/Emergency Surgery/Critical Care
• Vascular Surgery