The Learning Resource Center is dedicated to promote investigative projects among residents and research fellows with a full time bio-statistician Elvis Santiago Rodriguez and a team of epidemiologist. Below you will find the titles of the papers and abstracts that have been approved for publication and presented in research forums, you will also find the quarterly statistical reports of the Department of Surgery.

 

Accepted papers for publication in the PUERTO RICO HEALTH SCIENCES JOURNAL

 

• Database of Surgical Procedures: Characteristics of the Surgical Population of the University of Puerto Rico–Affiliated Hospitals

 

Norma I. Cruz, MD, Elvis Santiago, MS, Fernando Rivera, BS

Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico

 

• Gender Distribution of Surgery Residents at the University of Puerto Rico

 

Norma I. Cruz, MD, Fernando Rivera, BS, Elvis Santiago, MS

Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico

 

 Oral Power Point Presentation and Abstracts Publication- Rafucci Research Forum

 

• Characteristics of the Surgical Population of the University of Puerto Rico–Affiliated Hospitals – Rafucci Forum 2014

 

Norma I. Cruz MD; Elvis Santiago, MS; Fernando Rivera, BS

Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico

 

• Gender Distribution of Surgery Residents at the University of Puerto Rico – Rafucci Forum 2014

 

Fernando Rivera, BS; Elvis Santiago, MS; Norma I. Cruz, MD

Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico

 

• Prevalence of Diabetes in the Surgical Population of Puerto Rico – Rafucci Forum 2015

 

Norma I. Cruz, MD; Elvis Santiago, MS; Anwar Abdul-Hadi, MD

Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico

 

• Decreasing number of surgical cases at the UPR affiliated hospitals – Rafucci Forum 2016

 

Norma I. Cruz, MD; Elvis Santiago, MS; César Luque, MD

Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico

 

Power Point Presentation

 

• Surgery Database

Norma I. Cruz, MD, Elvis Santiago, MS, Luis López, MD

Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico

 

Quarterly statistical reports of the Department of Surgery (available in our Department)

 

• July to September 2013
• October to December 2013
• January to March 2014
• April to June 2014
• July to September 2014
• October to December 2014
• January to March 2015
• April to June 2015
• July to September 2015
• 2014 Annual Surgery Statistical Report