UNIQUE FEATURES

• Considerable 1:1 resident-faculty interaction
• High level of collegiality between faculty members despite diverse backgrounds
• Strong social interaction within surgical and non-surgical training programs
• Level 1 Trauma Center serving Central San Joaquin Valley population of 2 million
• Regional Burn Center (only Center between San Francisco and Los Angeles)
• Patients vary from pediatric to geriatric
• Critical trauma patients managed from pre-hospital intervention through resuscitative, operative and critical care to post-discharge follow-up
• Extensive experience in multiple areas of subspecialty orthopaedics and general surgery subspecialties
• One of the hospitals is a fully integrated health care delivery site combined with an advanced computerized elective patient care system