Program Goals 
General Thoracic
General Thoracic Surgery (6 months)
- Development of general thoracic surgical skills.
- Management of general thoracic surgical patients preoperatively and postoperatively.
- Ability to interpret thoracic radiographic studies.
- Responsibility for the assessment and management of all ward thoracic patients, under the direct supervision of the ward thoracic attending.
- Management and physiology of lung reduction patients.
- Teaching of general surgical residents.
- Ability to succinctly present patient problems and review and present salient journal articles in a cogent and discriminatory manner.
- Perfect endoscopic skills, both bronchoscopy and esophagoscopy.
- Modification of the educational routine, to include reading appropriate textbooks, specialty journals, and use of audiovisual educational material relating to thoracic diseases on a regular basis, as well as the ability to critique one's own fund of knowledge and identify areas in need of improvement.
- The ability to explain cardiothoracic pathology and the details of perioperative management to patient with non-cardiac thoracic diseases in an understandable, compassionate manner.
- The ability to critically assess the risk-benefit and cost effectiveness of various diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.
- The maintenance of the highest degree of professionalism and ethical standards in the care of patients and families and in interactions with colleagues and other hospital staff.
