Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport Academic Medical Center is a state-of-the-art Level 1 Trauma Center, a 452-bed acute care hospital that provides tertiary care to patients from throughout Louisiana, east Texas, and southwest Arkansas, providing a full spectrum of adult and pediatric cases. With more than 20,000 admissions, 500,000 outpatients visits, and in excess of 12,000 operations per year, the hospital provides our residents exposure to patients requiring basic and tertiary general surgical care, as well as a comprehensive operative and educational experience in all of the requisite defined categories. In addition, residents acquire a high volume of trauma, non-operative trauma, and surgical critical care experience during their training at this hospital.

Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport in Monroe provides surgical care to northeast Louisiana. Surgical residents obtain graduated levels of responsibility for the care of patients based on level of training and experience. Faculty supervise all levels of care. Complex surgical care is provided in the areas of general, vascular and non-cardiac chest surgery. With an annual surgical volume of approximately 2250 cases, rotation at this facility provides residents with exposure to patients outside the usual catchment area for the primary site. Residents acquire experience in pre-operative evaluations, operative cases, post-operative care. This allows a continuum for residents to follow patients from initial visit to resolution of the problem while being supervised by faculty.

At Willis-Knighton Medical Center Residents are exposed to complex surgical experience in the private sector, including kidney, liver, and pancreas transplantation, dialysis access, endocrine, and hepaticopancreaticobiliary procedures.

Under the guidance of surgical faculty, the Overton Brooks Veterans Affairs Medical Center provides residents with surgical experience from the outpatient setting through the illness/surgery, until recovery is complete. This hospital serves veterans from LA, east Texas and southwest Arkansas. Surgical residents interact with the faculty and residents from a full spectrum of medical specialties. Graduated levels of responsibility, under the supervision of the general surgery faculty is in the areas of general surgery, thoracic surgery, and vascular surgery. Over 800 surgical procedures are performed at this hospital annually. The rotation exposes residents to a diverse population of ages and diseases. Young and healthy patients are treated, but many of the patients are elderly with significant co-morbidities.

At Christus Highland Medical Center, residents receive experience and exposure to benign anorectal and colon disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and colo-rectal cancer under the supervision and guidance of our certified colon and rectal faculty. Residents also participate in colonoscopies for screening, polyp surveillance, cancer follow-up, and evaluation of gastrointestinal symptoms.

At Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport, St. Mary Medical Center, the educational experience will include general Pediatric Surgery and Pediatric Trauma with 24/7 coverage by three board-certified pediatric surgical staff members - Dr. Donald Sorrells, Dr. Kevin Boykin, and Dr. Mark Brown. Residents will receive clinical experience in congenital, neonatal, infant and adolescent disease processes. All six core ACGME competencies will be covered under their educational impact.