Postgraduate Education

For information about applying to the Department of Surgery Postgraduate Program visit and search the Faculty of Medicine website.

Residency Training Programs

The Department of Surgery in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia has approved specialty training programs in each of the following specialties:

• Cardiac Surgery
• General Surgery
• Neurosurgery
• Otolaryngology
• Pediatric Surgery
• Plastic Surgery
• Radiation Oncology and Developmental Radiotherapeutics
• Thoracic Surgery
• Vascular Surgery

Affiliated hospitals in these programs are the Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre, St. Paul's Hospital, B.C. Children's Hospital, Royal Columbian Hospital, St. Mary's Hospital, the University Hospital of Northern BC, Nanaimo Regional Hospital, and the British Columbia Cancer Agency.

All surgical residents are registered as postgraduate students with the University of British Columbia and are placed on the temporary educational registry of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia until graduation.

For further information about surgical programs in the Department of Surgery, please contact Denise Torresan, Program Administrator in the Postgraduate Education & Surgical Foundations Residency Office at 604-875-4132 or e-mail: denise.torresan@vch.ca

Postgraduate Education & Surgical Foundations Residency

Program Director- Dr. Ravi Sidhu
Program Administrator- Denise Torresan

last revised : 2011-May-26

Postgraduate Education by the Branch for International Surgery

Program Director- Dr. Robert H. Taylor
Director of Operations- Mairi Murchison

First Issue of the BIS Educational Newsletter - 2011 SPRING INFORM - [ 4 pages ]

UBC's Branch for International Surgery is a world leader in surgical care for global health

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first posted : 2011-June-16