What are your thoughts about Jax?
1800 cases a year (on avg. 3-6 procedures a case), 12000pt in clinic last year. OR scheduled 5 days a week (at least 2-3 rooms). Weekend OR is mostly on an addon basis if urgent.
30-50 patients in clinic a day, this will spread between the 3-4 interns
A lot of flaps and recon (sometimes up to 4-5 free flaps a week +2-3 pedicled flaps although rare, q2h flap check now), trauma (lots of GSW, in OR with neurosurgery often), 1.5 days of dentoalveolar clinic a week + outpatient sedation and OR cases (interns do most of these when clinic is slower), lots of TMJ, orthognathic probably once a week, lots of craniovaults, cosmetic, a lot of H&N procedures-laryngectomy, thyroid, tonsils, parotid, skull base surgery, enucleation of globe, DCR, canthotomy. No longer have to do extremities as fellows take care of these (chief participate with fellow to do skin graft for ortho, interns get to harvest STSG) . Chiefs will do 95% of the implants (this is not a strong point of the program, maybe 150implants at the end of the year)
Trauma call 24/7 (all face/head lacs/pimple popping go to us). Cover all trachs for the MICU (we usually get consulted before general surgery), airway team, intern will do a trach 2 months in as primary.
In house call q3-q4. Off at 12PM post-call, sometimes stay until 4PM if you are awake to go to the OR (~31-36hr shifts), 2 weekends off a month. Only 3 months of general surgery rotation.
Extremely busy program. There is no limitation of scope as there are no ENT, PRS, or Ophtho residencies here. You basically do almost everything.