Division of Vascular Surgery

Fourth-year Dell Med students have the option to complete a four-week clinical rotation that offers the opportunity of experiencing vascular surgery as a specialty. Students become fully integrated to the vascular service routine and participate in the whole spectrum of the divisional activities, both at outpatient and inpatient settings.

The division offers an opportunity for an acting internship in vascular surgery for fourth-year Dell Med students preparing to enter residency. During the four-week rotation, students are expected to increase responsibility as a member of the vascular surgery team for the entire rotation.

Students have the same responsibilities and duties as an intern or first-year house officer, with activities and responsibilities covering all aspects of vascular care — including seeing patients in clinics, participating in open surgical and endovascular procedures, following patients postoperatively and seeing patients in consultations at the emergency department.

Students in the acting internship program are also expected to assist in teaching, coaching and giving feedback to the surgical clerkship medical students.

Fourth-year medical students from Liaison on Committee on Medical Education or American Osteopathic Association-accredited institutions are eligible to apply for the acting internship in vascular surgery.

Division faculty members participate in Dell Med’s Specialty Advisor Program, which is an institutional initiative that provides structured coaching to medical students as they consider their graduate medical education options, offering specialty specific mentorship tailored to improve satisfaction with career choices and to enhance competitiveness for residency match.

The division provides core rotations for residents in Dell Med’s General Surgery Residency and Orthopedic Surgery Residency. The program’s faculty members provide residents with the skills needed to foster all surgical and nonsurgical elements of vascular care.

Education is provided longitudinally, including exposure to patient care in inpatient as well as outpatient environments, where residents are presented with value-based, patient-centered health care delivery concepts in the context of a wide variety of vascular diseases.

Surgical education is enhanced by recurring sessions in the skills lab and active participation in open, endovascular and hybrid procedures, where residents receive dedicated instruction about indication and utilization strategies of a wide range of medical devices used in reconstructive vascular surgery.

During their vascular surgery rotation, residents are also educated about strategies to pursue and maintain an ethical relationship with the medical devices industry throughout their careers.