The Department of Surgery of our hospital is one of the busiest of any public tertiary hospital in the country, delivering over 4000 procedures annually to patients from all around the country. We are staffed by a range of experienced and dedicated consultant and resident staff and supported by a wide range of experienced personnel, diagnostic facilities and laboratories. We are leaders in laparoscopic surgery, liver and biliary surgery, surgical endoscopy including ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography), spine surgery, paediatric cardiac surgery and kidney transplant surgery. We offer elective and emergency surgical services in the areas of

1. Gastrointestinal surgery
2. Laparoscopic surgery and endoscopy
3. Endocrine surgery
4. Hepatobiliary surgery
5. Urological and kidney transplant surgery
6. Plastic, Burns and reconstructive surgery
7. Cardiothoracic and Vascular surgery
8. Neurosurgery
9. Paediatric surgery (incusing neonatal surgery)
10. Emergency and trauma surgery

Surgical services are offered at our two main locations: The Ife Hospital Unit at Ile-Ife and the Wesley Guild Hospital, Ilesha, both of which are located in Osun State. Both hospitals have an emergency department where acute surgical conditions are managed and where patients who need urgent care are preferably attended to.

The Department of Surgery runs specialist clinics every week day as shown below. If you have been referred to us, please come along with your referral letter and or any tests or x-rays you may have previously done. If you feel very sick, please come to the emergency department so we can attend to you in a more timely manner

Patients requiring in-patient care may be admitted into either the open wards or the private suits. We have open surgical wards for males, females and children. The open wards have shared toilet and kitchen facilities and meals will be provided three times a day based on a scheduled timetable. Patients needing special diets will be put into consideration in preparing the meals. Caregivers may only be permitted into the wards on request by the care team or at visiting hours. Exceptions are made for children as a parent may be allowed to be with them at all times except under special circumstances such as children admitted into the intensive care unit etc.

Private rooms are also available at the private suites for patients who requests for them.

We are glad you are interested in residency training in surgery and the surgical specialties at our hospital. Residency training at our hospital combines excellent clinical exposure, academic programmes and research opportunities.

Our department is accredited by both the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria and the West African College of Surgeons to train junior resident doctors for the membership of both respective colleges in surgery. Additionally, we are accredited by both colleges to train senior residents in General Surgery and Paediatric Surgery. Finally, we are accredited by the West African College of Surgeons to train senior residents in Urology, Plastic Surgery, Neurosurgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery.

Residency training programme at our department is structured according to the curricula designed by both postgraduate colleges.

The hospital will make announcements from time to time about availability of vacant positions for residency training. We encourage you to monitor the news section of the website for such announcements.

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You may reach the department of surgery for general enquires via e-mail at surgery@oauthc.com or ifesurgery@gmail.com. Our postal address is as follows:
The Head, Department of Surgery,
Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital,
Ilesha road,
PMB 5538,
Ile-Ife, Osun State,
Nigeria.

You may also reach us via any of the hospital’s official contact phone numbers and addresses at http://oauthc.com/Contactus.aspx