The University of California Davis Medical Center provides a supportive and challenging educational environment within which residents from diverse backgrounds can prepare themselves for careers characterized by a commitment to excellence in service to others through patient care, research, teaching, and lifelong learning. Faculty offer residents the opportunity to participate in the delivery of leading-edge care, exposure to state-of-the-art facilities, and provide mentorship in the delivery of safe, compassionate, and ethical care.

Program Highlights

The residency in vascular surgery is a six-year (zero + five) training program leading to eligibility for certification by the Vascular Surgery Board of the American Board of Surgery. There is a dedicated year of research between the third and fourth year of training.

The five-year curriculum includes both vascular surgery content and core surgical education.

Residents’ educational experiences includes 18 months of core surgical education (general surgery and other surgical specialties), spread over the first three years of training, including pre- and post-operative evaluation and care; critical care and trauma management; technical experience in skin and soft tissue, and cardiac critical care, to provide a breadth of general surgery training and develop skills relevant to the practice of vascular surgery. Forty-two months of rotations are concentrated in vascular surgery. This includes training in advanced imaging, angiography and vascular interventions, and cardiovascular medicine.

The last two years of the program is spent on dedicated vascular surgery rotations, providing the trainee with experience as a chief resident responsible for leading the vascular surgery service at each of the sites.

For further details about sample rotation schedules and electives, please go to the UC Davis Vascular Surgery Residency website.