PGY – 2

    The year is spent reinforcing the primary skills learned during internship and taking them to the next level.  Madigan is operating as a level-2 trauma center and the majority of civilian trauma in Pierce County primarily is sent to us.  A supervisory role is now taken in on call (as the senior surgeon “in house”) as SOD and the resident in the ICU (on that rotation).  The source of reading should remain the primary textbook of Surgery.  In addition, a short research experience is designed to allow the resident to formulate and plan an experiment (either basic science or clinical) that can be carried out by either themselves or a colleague during the next few years.  In addition, the resident will also be allowed to participate in one of many ongoing research protocols that the staff are involved with.  In this format, the resident should be able to technically complete one experiment during the rotation that can be used as a vehicle for presentation or publication.  The majority of the year is, again, spent on general surgery with additional rotations in GI at Madigan and a trauma ICU rotation offered at Harborview Trauma Center in Seattle .