Lincoln Medical Center/Cornell (Bronx)

Affiliated with Weill Medical College of Cornell University — Bronx, NY

  • Trauma only
  • Critical Care only
  • Trauma & Critical Care
  • Acute Care Surgery
  • Advanced Practitioner
  • Duration: 1 year
  • Positions available: 1
  • Salary:
  • Program Director: Samuel Kigongo, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Last updated: September 09, 2011


Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center is a Level I state-designated Trauma Center with approximately 1200 trauma admissions (75% blunt, 25% penetrating). Lincoln has New York City's busiest Emergency Department. The Fellowship Program is fully accredited by the ACGME and candidates who successfully complete the program will be Board-Eligible in Surgical Critical Care. Fellows spend twelve months on critical care. The Department of Surgery has rotating general surgery residents from four programs and medical students from Cornell. Four of the faculty have the American Board of Surgery Certificate of Added Qualifications in Surgical Critical Care.

Program started 1985

How to apply

Qualifications: Must have completed at least three years of a general surgery residency.

Roxanne Gonzalez
Coordinator / Assistant Manager
Department of Surgery, 6-20
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center
234 E. 149th Street
Bronx, NY 10451
Roxanne.Gonzalez@nychhc.org

About the hospital

  • Beds: 350
  • ICU beds: 10
  • Annual ED visits: 155000
  • Annual trauma admissions: 1200
  • Trauma faculty: 11

Fellowship procedures

  • Total surgical (annually): 6000
  • General surgical: 10%
  • Trauma: 90%
  • Blunt trauma: 75%
  • Penetrating trauma: 25%

Location

234 E. 149th Street
Bronx, NY 10451

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