{"id":12934,"date":"2026-01-16T11:04:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhs.lacounty.gov\/harbor-ucla-medical-center\/?page_id=12934"},"modified":"2026-03-06T15:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:44:26","slug":"educational-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dhs.lacounty.gov\/harbor-ucla-medical-center\/gme\/surgery\/education\/vascular-surgery\/educational-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Educational Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<strong>Vascular Surgery Integrated Residency Program \u2013 Educational Curriculum:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The residency program provides a balanced curriculum consisting of clinical and didactic education.\u00a0 The residents will develop skill in the treatment of vascular disease for both inpatient and outpatient settings. Our educational program integrates core competencies including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Patient care<\/li>\n<li>Medical knowledge<\/li>\n<li>Practice-based learning and improvement<\/li>\n<li>Interpersonal and communication skills<\/li>\n<li>Professionalism<\/li>\n<li>Systems-based practice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The vascular resident will develop an understanding of evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and the incorporation of research within clinical practice.<\/p>\n<p>Residents will receive substantial exposure, through didactics and hands-on experience within the vascular laboratory, to sit for the ARDMS exam and achieve RPVI certification.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vascular Surgery Conferences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>Vascular Surgery Case Conference<\/u>:<\/p>\n<p>Held weekly on Wednesdays at 10am, this conference is attending by all vascular surgery faculty, residents, and fellows.\u00a0 Residents present interesting cases for discussion and review.\u00a0 These presentations are supported with review of all contemporary imaging.<\/p>\n<p><u>Vascular Surgery Teaching Conference<\/u>:<\/p>\n<p>Held weekly on Wednesdays at 11am, this conference focuses on a defined topic for the week, based on the VSCORE curriculum, and includes a student, resident or fellow presentation followed by discussion.<\/p>\n<p><u>Vascular Surgery Morbidity and Mortality<\/u>:<\/p>\n<p>This bi-weekly conference is held on Wednesdays at 11:30 and attended by all vascular surgery faculty and trainees.\u00a0 All service complications are discussed with review of pertinent literature.<\/p>\n<p><u>Harbor-UCLA Limb Alliance (HULA)<\/u>:<\/p>\n<p>This weekly conference is held on Wednesdays during the block of vascular surgery conferences.\u00a0 This is a patient-centered review of patients being actively co-managed by vascular surgery and the limb salvage services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Department of Surgery Conferences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>Morbidity and Mortality<\/u>:<\/p>\n<p>Held weekly on Wednesdays at 7:30AM, this conference is attended by all surgical residents and faculty.\u00a0 Residents present selected complications and review related literature.<\/p>\n<p><u>Grand Rounds<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Held monthly on Wednesdays at 8:30AM, this conference is attended by all surgical residents and faculty.\u00a0 The focus of this conference is the present current advances in surgical therapy.<\/p>\n<p><u>GI conference<\/u><br \/>\nHeld weekly on Wednesdays at 11:15AM, complex hepatobiliary, pancreatic, upper GI, and colorectal cases are presented by the medical and surgical services for multidisciplinary discussion on management.<\/p>\n<p><u>Endocrine<\/u><br \/>\nThis conference is held monthly. Complex thyroid, parathyroid, pancreatic neuroendocrine, and adrenal cases are presented by the endocrine and surgical services (ENT and GI\/Onc) for multidisciplinary management.<\/p>\n<p><u>Multidisciplinary Tumor Boards<\/u><br \/>\nGeneral and Breast. Each conference is held weekly, General on Wednesdays at Noon and Breast on Tuesdays at 12:30PM. Attended by Medical Oncology, Surgery, Radiology, Pathology and other ancillary services, cancer cases are discussed.<\/p>\n<p><u>Pulmonary Conference<\/u><br \/>\nHeld weekly on Tuesday afternoon, pulmonary cases are presented by the pulmonary service and thoracic surgery services.<\/p>\n<p><u>Trauma Conference<\/u><br \/>\nHeld weekly, trauma topics are presented by rotating residents and cases are discussed. Each month, this conference is combined with the emergency medicine residents.<\/p>\n<p><u>ABSITE Review<\/u><br \/>\nThis conference is attended by all surgery residents and focuses on the in-training exam. Topics are presented by the faculty every two weeks on Wednesdays at 8:30AM. A short quiz is distributed in advance to the residents and the answers are reviewed by the group.<\/p>\n<p><u>Case Based Review<\/u><br \/>\nFaculty present cases for the residents to work through as a group, focusing on standards in diagnosis and therapy of surgical diseases.<\/p>\n<p><u>Journal Club<\/u><br \/>\nResearch residents take sides on a controversial topic in surgery, presenting key articles to support their \u201cside\u201d of the argument in a point-counterpoint format.<\/p>\n<p><u>Mock Oral Boards<\/u><br \/>\nSenior residents take the \u2018hot seat\u2019 in front of an audience of surgical faculty and residents, responding to mock oral board scenarios.<\/p>\n<p><u>Multidisciplinary Intern Lecture Series<\/u><br \/>\nHeld every Tuesday at 11:30AM for the first three months of the year, this conference focuses on high yield topics in patient care applicable to the Intern Year and passing the USMLE Step III exam.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Vascular Surgery Integrated Residency Program \u2013 Educational Curriculum: The residency program provides a balanced curriculum consisting of clinical and didactic education.\u00a0 The residents will develop skill in the treatment of vascular disease for both inpatient and outpatient settings. 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