Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Residency Program Introduction

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Orientation

University of Minnesota: Contact the University of Minnesota Plastic Surgery Office (612-625-1188) for the U of M office orientation. The resident currently in training will assist you with University of Minnesota Medical Center orientation.

Call Schedule: During your University rotation, if you are covering for a resident at another institution please inform the University of Minnesota radio paging office (952-925-1452) that you are releasing call or taking call as far in advance as you are able.

Regions Hospital: Contact LuAnn LaSchomb (651-254-3792) for office orientation. Drs. Schubert will assist with Hospital Orientation.

VA Hospital: Contact Mary Cook in the Surgery Office (612-725-2065). She will discuss the time card SIGN-IN sheet discussed below.

Methodist Hospital: Contact Marie Mackey (952-933-5370) to arrange a time for your orientation.

North Memorial Medical Center: Contact the Medical Staff Office for your orientation sometime before your rotation begins.

WestHealth: Located in the western suburb of Plymouth. Cosmetic procedures are performed at this facility.

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Scheduling Surgery at University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview (UMMC)

There are three surgery centers utilized by the plastic surgeons at the University. The main Operating Room is located on the third Floor of the University Hospital.

The Ambulatory Surgery Center (also in the main OR Suite) is often used for procedures not requiring an admission following surgery although a patient may be admitted to the hospital from this center if needed.

The treatment room in the Surgery Clinic (located on the 1st floor of the Phillips-Wangensteen Building) is often used for very small local anesthetic cases only and must be scheduled with the Charge Nurse in Surgery Clinic.

When scheduling a patient from the ward for surgery, please inform the office staff of the patient's name, hospital number, and procedure. They will assist you with a convenient time to schedule the case in the OR. These inpatient cases must be non-elective cases in order to be scheduled without notification in writing to their insurance carrier for prior approval. Obviously, any emergent case can be scheduled directly and performed without insurance prior approval.

OR Scheduling phone number: 612-273-6484
Plastic Surgery Office phone number: 612-625-1188

If you wish to schedule a patient for an elective procedure, either from clinic or ward, please call the office staff to discuss with patient their insurance status (a prior authorization letter to the insurance carrier may be required before surgery can be scheduled). There are certain insurance carriers which require referrals from primary physicians and there are some carriers which are not contracted with this hospital or physician. Therefore, if surgery was performed on one of these patients without the proper pre-op leg work completed, payment would be denied to the physician and to the hospital.

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Plastic Surgery Clinic

Plastic Surgery Clinics at the University are held on Wednesday afternoon (Dr. Cunningham 12:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.)

A Resident Clinic is held in conjunction with the Wednesday afternoon clinic. Patients for this clinic are prearranged by the office for cosmetic consultations. They are evaluated by the University Plastic Surgery Resident and the attending staff physician.

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Dictation

You will receive a handbook from the University describing the University transcription process. Transcription of operative notes and discharge summaries may be done from any phone. These documents are transcribed by the University Transcription Department and mailed to the University Office for signatures. A weekly listing of undictated and/or unsigned operative notes and discharge summaries is published.

Please discuss with each individual staff surgeon his or her wishes with regard to dictation of operative notes and discharge summaries.

All clinic consultation notes for patients seen at the University are dictated after the patient has been seen and then transcribed in the Plastic Surgery Office. They are then printed directly onto the corresponding progress note in the patient's University of MN medical record. The office computer will have a listing of all clinic notes transcribed for quicker access by the surgeon and staff.

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Compensation

In addition to the salary benefit package commensurate with the level of training, the residents are provided with operating loupes, a subscription to Selected Readings in Plastic Surgery, and attendance at national meetings and conferences.

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