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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits
Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.
This flexible program is designed to accomplish a graduated and broad experience with a goal of preparing the Junior Associate to be able to evaluate emergent and non-emergent surgical patients in a protected setting. The practice at Sentara Leigh is the only surgical practice serving the hospital and accordingly sees a large volume of surgical patients and a variety of problems. The Emergency Room serves a large catchment area, and the on-call experience is busy and broad. The surgical service has a full complement of surgical house officers and medical students and is an active teaching service.
Program Description
The experience will include the breadth of general surgical problems, laparoscopic surgery, critical care, practice management, participation in hospital committee structure, office practice and teaching, current issues related to coding (including ICD-10 transition), electronic medical record training, and quality initiatives.
The practice has a high volume of routine general surgery and minimally invasive cases including breast surgery, bowel resection, appendectomies, bowel obstructions, gallbladder, hernia, and endocrine surgery. In addition, there is substantial volume of complex benign and oncologic general and thoracic cases. Upper and lower endoscopy and bronchoscopy are performed as well.
The position would be structured for the participant to be a member of the medical staff and function as a “Junior Attending” on the teaching service. His or her involvement as a Junior Associate would be under direct supervision of the Senior Associates. The Junior Associate would be expected to be able to independently manage surgical and non-surgical problems by the conclusion of the rotation. The Junior Associate would be able to handle general surgery call, manage basic thoracic surgery problems (no vascular or trauma), and be ready to assume a fully capable partner or employee role.
Senior Associates
*L.D. Britt, MD, MPH, FACS, FCCM - General and Acute Care Surgery, (Chairman, Eastern Virginia Medical School Department of Surgery) Aaron Bleznak, MD, FACS - FSSO, Breast Surgery Marc Boustany, MD, FACS - General, Endocrine and Minimally Invasive Jared Brooks, MD, FACS - General and Minimally Invasive Surgery Mark Fontana, MD, FACS - General and Bariatric Surgery Randy J. Gould, MD, FACS - General Endocrine Surgery Jennifer Reed, MD, FACS - Breast Surgery John Sayles, MD, FACS, FACRS - General and Colorectal Surgery James Schneider, MD, FACS - General and Surgical Oncology James Snyder, MD, FACS - General and Minimally Invasive Bethany Tan, MD, FACS - General Thoracic Surgery *Will provide programmatic oversight
