The Department of Surgery, University of Vermont College of Medicine

• Published in: Archives of surgery (Chicago. 1960) Vol. 141; no. 4; pp. 337 - 339
• Main Author: Pilcher, David B
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Medical Association 01.04.2006
• Subjects: Facilities; General Surgery - history; History of medicine; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Medical schools; Schools, Medical - history; Surgery; Teaching hospitals; Universities - history; Vermont; Vermont
• ISSN: 0004-0010; 2168-6254; 1538-3644; 2168-6262
• DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.141.4.337

The Vermont medical faculty took exception to this decision, believing that physicians who would settle in rural areas would be unable to afford medical school at Harvard or Yale Universities and that people in rural places deserved the best in medical care. After the war, returning faculty established the divisions of neurosurgery; anesthesiology; urology; thoracic surgery; orthopedics; ophthalmology; ears, nose, and throat (ENT); and plastic surgery within the Department of Surgery. Research has dramatically increased, with such notable developments as sentinel node national trials in breast cancer, studies on head injury and vasospasm in intracranial hemorrhage, and thoracic aortic injury studies. The strongest advantage of UVM's Department of Surgery for medical students and residents has been the unique development of a unified fulltime faculty dedicated to teaching, with a patient population in which all patients are treated the same.