The surgical residency is a graded, five-year program.  During each of the five years, the resident is given increasing responsibility.  First, second, and third-year surgical residents rotate on night call throughout their three junior years.  During night call, they are responsible for all services of the Surgery Department.  The senior residents similarly are on call for immediate consultation on all problems and operative cases.  The attending surgeons maintain an on-call roster immediately available to the Chief Surgical Resident.  The Chief Surgical Resident is on call every other night and every other weekend.

     Although the Surgical Residency Program is based at the San Joaquin General Hospital, it is affiliated with the University of California, Davis.  In addition to San Joaquin General Hospital, the residency program includes rotations through the University of California Davis Medical Center (Sacramento), and St. Joseph's Medical Center (Stockton).  The program is, therefore, listed as follows:

San Joaquin General Hospital

     San Joaquin General Hospital serves a total County population of approximately 500,000 people.  As a public-operated facility, the patients admitted to the hospital, to the emergency room and to the clinics are the responsibility of the house staff physicians under the supervision of the attending faculty.  The Surgery Department has 40-60 beds.  During an average year, there are 3,000 patients admitted to the surgical services, and 4,500 surgical procedures performed.  From July 1997 to July 1998, 20,000 patients were seen in the surgical outpatient clinics.  A large volume of traumatic cases are seen in the Emergency Department, which is usually busy because of location on two major highways.  Statistics recorded during the past year reflect the activity of the Surgical Service:
 

4,200		Inpatient Admissions
19,877		Outpatient Admissions
40,150		Emergency Room Admissions
3,656		Operations

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St. Joseph's  Medical Center

     St. Joseph's Medical Center is a teaching hospital located in Stockton.  The fourth-year surgical residents rotate through St. Joseph's Medical Center, each for a period of six months as Senior Resident.  During this time, he/she has complete responsibility of the management of all patients on the surgical service under the supervision of the attending surgeons. Statistics of the past year reflect the activity of the hospital:
 

8,602		Inpatient Admissions
8,550		Outpatient Admissions
31,568		Emergency Room Admissions
8,602		Operations

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The University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento

     The University Medical Center is an acute hospital licensed for 409 beds. It has an active emergency department, outpatient clinics, and research facilities.  Since July 1985, third- or fourth-year surgical residents have been rotating through the University of California, Davis Medical Center in Pediatric Surgery, Surgical Intensive Care Unit/Burns, Trauma and Transplantation.  Projected figures for the University of California, Davis Medical Center are as follows:
 

40,000		Inpatient Admissions
19,322		Outpatient Admissions
61,016		Emergency Room Admissions
21,796		Operations

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