Burns
The MGH Burn Center is a 10-bed acute burn unit with approximately 180-200 admissions per year complemented by a Pediatric Unit at the adjacent Shriner's Burns Institute. Residents rotating through this service will have the opportunity to participate in the initial evaluation, resuscitation, critical care, operative management, and long term follow-up of patients after thermal, electrical, and chemical burns, primarily at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly teaching conferences and daily attending rounds offer residents further insight into managing the severely burned patient.

Pediatric Surgery
The Children's Hospital of Boston serves both as an international tertiary care referral center and a primary care hospital for the immediate area. As a third-year surgical resident rotating there, the general surgery resident will be part of the large surgical team. The average census for in-house surgical patients ranges between 50 and 70. Responsibilities will include management of the in-house patients, assisting in the operating room, exposure to both pediatric and neonatal intensive care units, exposure to emergency room patients, and weekly attendance at the follow-up outpatient clinic. The breadth of cases to which residents will be exposed will include such classic pediatric issues as pyloric stenosis, intussusception, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, transplantation, tracheoesophageal fistula, cloacal repairs, and the more routine pediatric hernias and hydroceles. This rotation will offer an unusual breadth of exposure to routine and exotic pediatric surgical problems.

Trauma
The Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore is an active trauma referral center taking trauma throughout the Commonwealth of Maryland. Third-year residents will spend two months as an integral part of one of the trauma teams and will take care of penetrating and blunt trauma.