To some people it’s just a paper box - but the lit up faces of the interns when the abdominal wall models were brought out could’ve driven away #TropicalStormDebby herself! 🌤️Golnoosh Ansari Faithful Ogundiran, MD, MPH Mary Moya-Mendez blynny Cheryl K. Zogg Duke General Surgery Residency Duke Surgery

The JARs beautifully hand-sewed some bowel yesterday under the guidance of Dr. Ravindra. No doubt their anastomoses will keep things flowing smoothly! David Tyler Severson, MD DPhil Hiba Ghandour Joe M. Ladowski, MD PhD Isa DeLaura Duke General Surgery Residency Duke Surgery

JARs! It’s not about pulling back - it’s about pulling together (awwwww)! Wednesday is your day to come review retractor setup and laparotomy skills with Dr. Moore! See you at 10am in TSC 5057.Duke General Surgery Residency Duke Surgery Duke Surgical Oncology Kevin N Shah #MedEd

This past decade, #DukeSurgerys SEAL lab has gone through tremendous growth & innovations so that our residents are trained using the best & latest surgical technology. #DecadeInReviewHighlights #MedTwitter

And we are SO excited about what’s still to come! We have some really big and bright 💡 plans for the future.

SEAL fellow Shannon Barter and Auri García bringing all their muscles and smiles to the open GJ lab with Sabino Zani, MD, FACS yesterday afternoon. Duke General Surgery Residency Duke Surgery Duke Surgical Oncology #MedEd #residency

It was the JARs turn to tackle the paper box laparotomy model at their SEAL Lab & between getting through felt fascial layers, they got a refresher on setting up our self-retaining retractors like the Thompson donated by Thompson Retractor! Duke General Surgery Residency Steven Thornton, MD Duke Surgical Oncology

JARs! Your lab this Wednesday at 10 might be basic laparoscopy but there's nothing basic at all about the 𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘦 of your class! Come show us what you got! Duke General Surgery Residency Duke Minimally Invasive Surgery Alisan #istandwithiranwomen Fathalizadeh Kevin N Shah

Have your skills become a…circuit-ous mess? Have you not been entirely successful on the robot? Lab1s, tomorrow is your day to boldly go where many have gone before and seek out new techniques on the Intuitive Xi with Louise! Duke General Surgery Residency Duke Minimally Invasive Surgery Duke Surgery

Check out how Louise shares her calm wisdom about emergency undocking with Drs. O’Connor and Oladokun. #verydemure. #verymindful. The way you go to SEAL is the way you go to the OR! Duke General Surgery Residency Intuitive

JARs, we will meet again on Wednesday for your Ostomy creation lab with Louise. From 10am until high noon at the TSC Corral you’ll be wrangling your pig bowel in pairs to create some of the cutest ostomies in the west! Duke General Surgery Residency Duke Surgical Oncology Kevin N Shah Duke Surgery

Come and join us for the Ostomy 5k on 10/5/24. Run, walk or just cheer us all on! Duke Surgery Duke General Surgery Residency DukeSEAL Duke General Surgery Interest Group

Come and see the beautiful creations that Dr Karen Sherman sculpted in her spare time! #surgicallysculpted

We did indeed have some of the cutest ostomies in the west after Louise tried to bait Michael Okoreeh, MD PhD, Felix De Bie, MD, MBE, PhD, Norine Wendlyn Chan and Isa DeLaura into good-spirited arguments about when to create an ileostomy. It was a diverting experience indeed! Duke General Surgery Residency Duke Surgical Oncology

Great showing at the inaugural Duke AWS Women in Surgery (WinS) welcome event this week! S/o Hana Shafique and Alexandria (Alex) Soto for amazing leadership, and Gayle DiLalla, Duke Surgery and DEI Catalyst Fund for all the support!! #WomenInSurgery #ILookLikeASurgeon #Mentorship

We can’t wait to work with you Dr. Thornton!

Congratulations to the incredible surgical educator and North Carolina native Steven Thornton, MD 📚✏️😷! Expecting great things! John Migaly Jacob Greenberg Duke General Surgery Residency UNC Surgery

Still energized by the incredible turnout for our Duke AWS Mentorship Pods!⚡️🪡🚺 A huge thanks to Hana Shafique & Dana Rowe for co-leading this awesome initiative 🤩 Also, grateful to Gayle DiLalla, Shannon Barter, & the DEI Catalyst Fund for their support! #ILookLikeASurgeon

What do Flaps and FAST have in common? A.) They both start with F B.) They are the subject of our SEAL labs tomorrow for our Interns and Lab2s, respectively C.) They’re gonna be a lot of fun D.) All of the above Jay S. Lee, MD Duke General Surgery Residency Duke Trauma Kevin N Shah Duke Surgery

Hearts and lungs and robots, oh my! DukeCTSurgery trainees and faculty were working hard at our simulation session today! Duke Surgery