plastic surgery training requirements

[uncfinley]

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are there a specific number of procedures that a plastic resident has to complete during their training or is a basic exposure good enough?

 

[drpatelplasticsurgery]

not entirely sure about operative volume, but i do know during your plastics oral boards you have three separate examination rooms. at least one of your examination rooms will inquire about a case from your personal training portfolio. you present any of five cases you submit to the boards, and from there they throw in curveballs, complications, and scenarios from which you have to anticipate mitigation and appropriate management. general surgery oral boards are very stressful, as any surgeon can attest, but plastics takes the cake (one attending who recently sat for his cited a 30% fail rate for 1st time takers).

log any and all cases and take good notes on them. in the end (at least in a combined program), your operative volume should be around the 'sweet spot' of a general surgery categorial, i.e., 900-1200 cases.

i now welcome the flaming from all the current residents/attendings in plastics... 🙂