Thoracic Surgery Residency Program
Our graduate medical education programs include the Baylor College of Medicine Integrated Thoracic Surgery Integrated Residency Program and the Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Heart Institute Thoracic Surgery Independent Fellowship, which provide the highest level of thoracic surgery training with a broad comprehensive clinical experience at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, Ben Taub Hospital, MD Anderson and the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center.
Undergraduate Medical Education
We offer a 1-month sub-internship (MESUR 548 – General Thoracic Surgery) for students interested in pursuing thoracic or cardiothoracic surgery training. This dynamic thoracic surgery rotation exposes students to a wide breadth of thoracic and foregut condition, including elective and emergent operations, advanced endoscopy, robotic surgery, and complex multispecialty resections. The student is expected to round with the residents, fellow and faculty on a daily basis. This experience includes time in the operating room and participating in the preoperative evaluation and postoperative care of the patients both on the wards and in the intensive care unit. Students will accompany residents to didactic and multidisciplinary conferences, including our weekly surgery morbidity and mortality conference, tumor board, and preoperative conference at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center and our monthly benign GI conference.
Post-Graduate Research
Our Systems Onco-immunology Lab (SOIL), Ripley-Xu Lab for Translational Thoracic Oncology Research, and Lung Transplantation Translational Research Lab offers post-graduate positions for training in basic and translational laboratory research.
