Clinical Resources
Saint Raphael residents enhance their expertise in patient care and disease diagnosis through rotations and clinical experiences throughout the hospital.
Anesthesiology
The department of Anesthesiology covers all phases of general, regional and local anesthesia for all types of surgical and obstetrical cases. The department is also involved in evaluating and treating chronic pain.
Department mortality and morbidity meetings take place monthly. The department also sponsors a monthly series of presentations by nationally known speakers.
Emergency Medicine
With 55,000 patient visits each year, the Hospital of Saint Raphael Emergency Department is an essential provider of emergency services to the community of Greater New Haven. Under the supervision of emergency medicine board-certified physicians, interns and residents from many disciplines evaluate and treat patients of all ages with a wide variety of illnesses and injuries.
The Hospital of Saint Raphael Emergency Department is staffed and equipped to support many of the hospital’s roles in the community including that of a Level II Trauma Center, an interventional cardiology center, and comprehensive neurologic disease treatment center. The department recently implemented an integrated electronic information system including an electronic medical record, computerized order entry and digital radiography. The department also added many technologically advanced diagnostic adjuncts including bedside ultrasonography and point of care testing.
Pathology
Residents learn to appreciate the complexities of pathology by working closely with Saint Raphael pathologists. An understanding of the pathologist’s contribution to patient care and the specific acquisition of skills and knowledge are gained through individual instruction and numerous clinical conferences.
Saint Raphael’s laboratories are well equipped, largely automated and have ample capabilities for methodology evaluation, new procedure development and quality assurance studies. Major procedures in all divisions of surgery and medical specialties make for an unusually fine source of material in surgical pathology.
Psychiatry
Supervised by a faculty psychiatrist board-certified in psychosomatic medicine, PGY 3 residents take part in Saint Raphael’s psychiatric consultation service by evaluating patients on medical and surgical units. In this role, they gain valuable experience providing psychiatric assessments and treatment including counseling and pharmacotherapy.
Internal Medicine residents rotate through the outpatient clinic where they gain exposure to acute and chronically mentally ill patients.
More than 900 child, adolescent and adult psychiatric inpatients are treated at Saint Raphael’s each year. Featuring a comprehensive, integrated model of inpatient and outpatient care, services include a day hospital, evening chemical dependence treatment, and 24-hour emergency care. PGY 1 residents can also elect to rotate through Saint Raphael’s 20-bed inpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry unit.
The department of psychiatry regularly holds grand rounds attended by residents, physicians, mental health professionals and others interested in the topics, which cover a full range of behavioral health treatment and research.
Radiation Oncology
Radiation Oncology services are provided through Saint Raphael’s Father Michael J. McGivney Center for Cancer Care. Residents rotating through this busy facility gain valuable clinical experience from the wide spectrum of malignancies being treated. The department is equipped with state-ofthe-art equipment, including modern, supervoltage linear accelerators with electron capabilities, intensity modulated radiation therapy, orthovoltage and superficial equipment, computerized simulators, three-dimensional isodose planning, physics, consultations, radioactive implants, high-dose rate afterloading equipment and mammosite, and stereotactic radiosurgery with the CyberKnife® Stereotactic Radiosurgery System.
Residents work side-by-side with radiation oncologists, examining patients and participating in their oncologic management. Residents learn how to perform a head and neck examination, plus observe procedures in both the department and operating room. They also participate in several multidisciplinary conferences.
Further Information
We hope that you will consider joining in the Hospital of Saint Raphael’s tradition of excellence. Contact: House Staff Office – (203) 789-3034.
Page last updated on Jul. 15, 2011