Division of Thoracic Surgery
Events
| Weekly |
Monday
| 0645-0800 hours | Resident ward round |
| 0915-1500 hours | Ambulatory thoracic surgery clinic with Dr. Donna E. Maziak |
| 1700-1800 hours | Formal resident teaching rounds relevant to thoracic surgery by invited lecturers in cardiology, pulmonary medicine, thoracic anaesthesia, acute pain service, neurology, cardiac surgery, chest radiology, respiratory technology, pulmonary pathology, thoracic oncology, surgical skills, chest physiotherapy, otolaryngology, and biomedical ethics |
Tuesday
| 0645-0800 hours | Resident ward round |
| 0800-1600 hours | Ambulatory thoracic surgery clinic with Dr. Farid M. Shamji |
Wednesday
| 0645-0730 hours | Resident ward round |
| 0730-0830 hours | Residents prepare and give scholarly presentation on topics assigned in thoracic surgery |
| 0900-1600 hours | Ambulatory thoracic surgery clinic with Dr. Sudhir R. Sundaresan |
Thursday
| 0645-0800 hours | Resident ward round |
| 0915-1500 hours | Ambulatory thoracic surgery clinic with Dr. Donna E. Maziak |
Friday
| 0645-0745 hours | Resident ward round |
| 0800-0915 hours | Multidisciplinary thoracic oncology conference |
| 0930-1030 hours | Multidisciplinary thoracic clinical practice round |
| 1045-1145 hours | Thoracic surgery staff ward round |
| 1300-1400 hours | Alternate Friday multidisciplinary pulmonary-radiology-pathology conference |
| Twice Monthly |
Core Surgery seminars.
| Monthly |
| One-hour didactic teaching by invited lecturer, on Monday.
A three-hour combined academic pulmonary medicine and thoracic surgery journal club meeting, with presentation by an invited guest speaker, on Wednesday. Surgical Grand Rounds, on the fourth Wednesday. |
| Bimonthly |
Thoracic oncology research and clinical trials meeting, under the directorship of |
| Quarterly |
Research rounds on Monday – 1.5 hours. Two-hour thoracic surgery audit for morbidity and mortality on Wednesday, presented by residents. Formal examination in thoracic surgery, on Friday – 1.5 hours. The Division of Thoracic Surgery invites thoracic surgeons from other academic centres in Canada four times a year for scholarly presentations, teaching residents in small group sessions and actively guiding the residents in the operating room. |
| Annual |
The Division of Thoracic Surgery has an annual academic retreat day attended by thoracic surgeons, residents and invited speaker. Residents are funded for and expected to attend either one thoracic surgery review course or one national or international meeting per year. Residents are expected to complete one clinical research project each year for publication and presentation at the annual Department of Surgery Collins’ Surgical Resident Research Day. |