Yale Pediatric Surgery Residency

Overview
The Pediatric Surgery Residency Program at Yale is a two-year ACGME clinical training program accredited to train one Resident every two years. The program is conducted in Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital and is administered by the Section of Pediatric Surgery within the Department of Surgery at Yale University School of Medicine.

Faculty and Facilities
The faculty consists of four full time academic pediatric surgeons, two clinical nurse specialists, and a physician-associate. One faculty member also serves as Surgeon-in-Chief at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital. More than 1,350 pediatric surgical operations are performed each year, including a wide spectrum of neonatal index cases, tumors, thoracic surgery, laparoscopy, endoscopy, and acute surgical problems. Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital is a Level I, ACS-accredited trauma center with more than 300 major pediatric trauma patients admitted to the pediatric surgical service each year. The Children's Hospital supports an ECMO center.

The Children's Hospital is a modern 11 story tertiary care referral center for Connecticut and surrounding areas. The building is adjacent to Yale-New Haven Hospital, but has an independent Pediatric Emergency Department, an Operating Suite with Post Anesthesia Care Unit for children, Diagnostic Imaging, Pediatric Specialty Center where all outpatients are seen, and separate inpatient units for infants/toddlers, school age children and adolescents, as well as an eleven bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. The Newborn Special Care Unit and busy high risk Maternal Care Unit are in adjoining space, providing excellent opportunities for routine surgical perinatal consultation.

Education
The Pediatric Surgical program exposes the trainee to all aspects of pediatric surgery within a single tertiary care center, and offers electives in neonatology, intensive care and other surgical disciplines including urology, cardiothoracic surgery and otolaryngology. Educational opportunities include teaching conferences, tumor board, journal club, surgical pathology conference, morbidity and mortality report, and discharge conference with the pediatric staff.

Research
The clinical activities of the Section have focused on introducing and modifying innovative surgical approaches to infant surgery, including laparoscopic-assisted pullthrough procedures for Hirschsprung's disease, laparoscopic contralateral assessment for hernia surgery, and the Nuss operation for pectus excavatum. The Section also provides the option of laparoscopic splenectomy or fundoplication to open abdominal procedures.

Clinical research includes an RO1 grant to study comparison of peritoneal drainage versus open operation for perforated necrotizing enterocolitis in the extremely low birth weight infant, leadership of a national neonatal surgical database, and a national trial on the use of perfluorocarbon lung distention for congenital diaphragmatic hernia.

Application
The Children's Hospital training program is a participating member of the Association of Pediatric Surgical Training Programs and makes its appointment through the Matching Program for Pediatric Surgery conducted by the National Residency Matching Programs (NRMP). An application may be obtained from the address below.

Program Director
Section of Pediatric Surgery
Department of Surgery
Yale University School of Medicine
333 Cedar Street
P.O. Box 208062
New Haven, CT 06520-8062

Phone: (203) 785-2701
Fax: (203) 785-3820
Linda.croughwell@yale.edu