LSUS Medical School/Schumpert Medical Center
Program Director: Philip A. Cole, MD
1811 Bert Kouns,
Phone: (318) 424-8373
Email: pcolemd@msn.com
Residency Coordinator: John A. McCarter
Email: jmccarter@wkhs.com
Number of Residents (per year): 2
Number of Faculty (ABCRS Certified): 4
University Affiliation: LSU School of Medicine-Shreveport
Salary/Year: Approximately $52,000
Case mix / number of cases: Over the past five years, the residents' average case volume has been: Abdominal-190, Anorectal-180; and Colonoscopy-550.
Strengths of program: The resident obtains an extensive operative and endoscopic experience. The case mix covers the full range of colon and rectal surgery including transanal endoscopic microsurgery, sphincter reconstruction, transanal rectocele repairs, laparoscopic colon resections, PPH, rectovaginal fistula repair, complex anorectal surgery, LAR, and coloanal anastomosis. The two residents do not compete for cases. They are based at different hospitals for two month rotation periods.
Clinic or office experience: An active office practice offers exposure to medical care, diagnosis and minor procedures (incision and drainage of abscess, thrombosed hemorrhoid excision, hemorrhoid banding, infrared coagulation, etc.) Each resident has office patients one or two afternoons a week, supervised by the attending staff. Each resident has a colo-rectal teaching clinic at
Interaction with general surgery residents: Conferences at
Conferences: Conferences include weekly general surgery grand rounds, morbidity & mortality (held monthly), CRS journal club (weekly), and CME conferences. Pathology and Radiology teaching is facilitated on an individual basis with the Schumpert attending staff of these departments. Weekly multi-specialty cancer conference includes pathology, GI, GYN, Internal Medicine, Oncology and radiology staff. GI Conference, weekly.
Anorectal physiology availability: The resident participates fully in anorectal manometry studies. Defecography is performed by radiology and reviewed with the resident. Transanal ultrasound is performed by the CRS staff and resident.
Outside rotations: None
Research year: None is offered.
Requirement for paper: The resident is strongly encouraged to write a clinical paper suitable for presentation and publication. A large volume of case material is available for review. An opportunity for research has developed with the recent formation of an endowment for colon and rectal cancer focused on education (patient and physician) and research.