Rotations
During the third year, optional time is available for additional experience in congenital heart disease or in surgical treatment of heart failure, cardiac electrophysiology, and complex thoracic surgery as a three-month elective.
Primary Teaching Hospital
The primary clinical facility is the modern 416 bed Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, the major tertiary care referral facility in central New Jersey. The hospital features a Level I Trauma Center, one of only three in the state, a new cancer hospital which opened in 2002 and a free standing Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital.
Operative Experience
|
Major General Thoracic
|
Heart Valve Surgery
|
Total Cases
|
|
**145 |
67 |
512 |
|
205 |
45 |
419 |
2007 Graduate
|
241 |
69 |
549 |
2006 Graduate
|
*167 |
129 |
781 |
2005 Graduate
|
249 |
84 |
758 |
2004 Graduate
|
226
|
77
|
757
|
2003 Graduate
|
216
|
78
|
771
|
2002 Graduate
|
200
|
140
|
985
|
2001 Graduate
|
193
|
116
|
705
|
2000 Graduate
|
166
|
68
|
535
|
1999 Graduate
|
215
|
159
|
944
|
*Started our program in October 2003 in lieu of July and therefore did not do the first three months of thoracic rotation.
**Due to the closing of his residency program at Thomas Jefferson University, his figures are based on both Thomas Jefferson & UMDNJ-RWJMS.