Meet Our Fellows

2020-2021

Michael Johnson, MD
1st Year Fellow/Residency
Medical School:  Saint George University School of Medicine, Grenada – 2013
General Surgery Residency: Univ. of Texas Health Science Center – 2020

Brett Starr, MD
2nd Year Fellow/Residency
Medical School: WFU School of Medicine – 2014
General Surgery Residency: Vidant Medical Center / East Carolina University – 2019

Alumni

Call Schedule

The Thoracic Surgery Residency official call plan can be found in the official policy manual. The call plan has been designed to maximize resident education while providing consistent, appropriate coverage of service patients within the confines of the ACGME rules and guidance. The basic call structure is outlined below:

• Thoracic Surgery Resident will cover both cardiac and thoracic consult and admission pagers on a Q2 schedule. This will cover new consults, admissions, and patients needing urgent and emergent operations during night and weekend periods (officially 5pm-5am, M-F and 5pm Friday – 5am Monday)
• Thoracic Surgery Residents may not cover primary call on any current in-house patients. This is to be covered by in-house general surgery residents and Advance Practice Providers. Thoracic Surgery Residents will provide back-up coverage in the event the primary call providers need assistance.
• The General Thoracic inpatient service is covered by an in-house R2 general surgery resident during night and weekend hours. This resident will cover thoracic, vascular, and surgical oncology and will be based in the heart tower and cancer center. They will take first calls on any thoracic service patients and anyone we have operated on or performed procedures on. They are backed up by the on-call fellow and the Chief gen surg resident in house. See the official Thoracic Surgery Coverage Agreement in the policy manual for details.
• Calls from the transfer center and Cardiac Connections for new admissions and transfers from outside hospitals should go through the on call attending for that service.
• All ACGME work hours rules must be followed during the coverage of at-home call. See the ACGME Common Program Requirements Section VI for details.
• In the event that a Thoracic Surgery Resident becomes in violation of their ACGME mandated hours and needs to leave the hospital and no longer cover call in order to stay in compliance, the on call attending for the respective services will become responsible for coverage at that time.

Case Volume

The following is recent institutional and resident case volumes at ECU Health Medical Center.

Recent one year institutional case numbers