The training programs encompass experiences at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Baptist Health Medical Center, and the John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital, and Arkansas Children’s Hospital, all of which are located in Little Rock, Arkansas. The case mix includes a wide variety of both open and advanced endovascular therapies. Complex vascular pathology is frequently encountered, as UAMS is the only tertiary referral center in the state. The clinical rotations at these hospitals are four to eight weeks in duration.
UAMS Medical Center
The UAMS Medical Center is a 490-bed tertiary care medical center and the flagship hospital of the residency program. The current hospital opened in January of 2009 and includes 22 state-of-the-art operating rooms. The majority of the full-time faculty practice at UAMS and most of the resident activities are centered on this campus. This hospital serves as a state-wide referral center for trauma, transplantation, and complex oncologic and general surgical cases. At UAMS, residents gain experience in general and acute care surgery, vascular and endovascular surgery, surgical oncology, transplantation, thoracic surgery, plastic surgery and surgical critical care.
John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital
The John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital is a 280-bed tertiary VA medical center that is contiguous to the UAMS campus. This medical center has 500,000 outpatient visits each year, making it one of the larger VA health care systems in the country. Here, the residents are supervised by five full-time faculty surgeons and a number of surgeons who have dual appointments shared between the VA and UAMS. Our residents learn to care for patients with basic and complex general, vascular and thoracic surgical diseases such as abdominal wall hernias, GI malignancies, abdominal aortic aneurysms, peripheral vascular occlusive disease, and lung cancer. With a state-of-the-art hybrid operating room that operates five days a week, vascular trainees experience not only “bread-and-butter” vascular cases, but also complex index cases, such as renal and visceral bypasses, thoracoabdominal aneurysm repairs, fenestrated endografts and complex re-do lower extremity reconstructions.
Baptist Medical Center
Baptist Medical Center (BMC) is a tertiary care not-for-profit, community hospital located in Little Rock. Baptist in Little Rock serves as a training site for vascular residents in all years of residency. Rotating here provides residents with clinical experiences in an urban private practice setting and attracts both straight-forward and complex cases from around the state. The dedicated large hybrid operating room, finished in 2014, allows for advanced vascular surgical imaging and treatment.