En este episodio en Español invitamos a Lorenzo, Rodrigo y Víctor para platicarnos de sus experiencias al aplicar a la residencia de cirugía general en E.U. como estudiantes internacionales. Todos comenzaron como preliminares y cuentan su camino para llegar al categórico dando consejos muy valiosos para aquellos pensando en hacer cirugía general en Estados Unidos y para los que acaban de hacer match como preliminares.

On this episode in Spanish, we have Lorenzo, Rodrigo and Victor talking to us about their experience applying for general surgery residency as IMGs. They all started as preliminary resident and share with us their path to become categorical residents giving valuable advice for those thinking about applying to residency on the US and those that just matched as preliminary residents.

We are back! With match week causing all sorts of anxiety, were here to talk about our experience as interns and how to make yourself stand out, especially when you are a prelim.

En este episodio, como parte de la serie de terapia intensiva quirúrgica, vamos a revisar el sistema gastrointestinal. José Luis y Víctor de México nos llevan por este caso clínico resaltando conceptos fundamentales sobre evaluación y manejo de estado nutricional, formas de alimentación y brevemente manejo de estomas. ¡Contamos con una versión en ingles por si necesitan repasar los mismos conceptos en ingles! Time out-The Surgery Podcast es el primer podcast bilingüe de Cirugía General

Another installment of our critical care series:

This week we are highlighting the cardiovascular system.

Upcoming we will be starting a vascular surgery series.

On this episode we continue our critical care series with the exciting GI and nutrition section. Jose does an amazing illustrating the importance and management of GI/nutrition in our critically ill surgical patients.

Upcoming we also have Cardiovascular and Pulmonary that will be released in the next coming weeks!!!

This week Administrative Chief Dave Kim leads a discussion with Mike, Hassam and Jose about a very important topic for our rising PGY 2's: Critical Care and specifically how to manage our surgical patients.

We will be breaking down each episode to review one organ system which is often the way a critically ill patient is presented.

We're back with a new episode!

This week we are delving into acute appendicitis. Again similar format, but we made sure to streamline our editing and make it more enjoyable and easier for our users to listen. Please email:

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Our first audio podcast covering the topic of acute cholecystitis, a common surgical consult. We start with how to obtain a good surgical history, then reviewing the pertinent exam, lab and imagining findings. Finally ending with how to proceed in the operating room.

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