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The General Surgery Residency program curriculum provides a deep understanding of value-based, patient-centered health care delivery for the management of a variety of surgical diseases.

Curriculum Components

PGY-1 (Categorical/Preliminary)

  • Acute care surgery
  • Burn surgery
  • Colorectal surgery
  • Foregut surgery
  • General surgery
  • Pediatric surgery
  • Surgical ICU
  • Surgical oncology
  • Transplant surgery
  • Vascular surgery

PGY-2

  • Acute care surgery
  • Colorectal surgery
  • Foregut surgery
  • General surgery
  • Surgical ICU
  • Surgical oncology
  • Transplant surgery
  • Vascular surgery

PGY-3

  • Acute care surgery
  • Cardiothoracic surgery
  • Colorectal surgery
  • Foregut surgery
  • General surgery
  • Surgical oncology
  • Transplant surgery
  • Vascular surgery

PGY-4

  • Acute care surgery
  • Colorectal surgery
  • Foregut surgery
  • General surgery
  • Pediatric surgery
  • Surgical oncology
  • Transplant surgery
  • Vascular surgery

PGY-5 (Chief Year)

  • Acute care surgery
  • Colorectal surgery
  • Foregut surgery
  • General surgery
  • Surgical oncology
  • Transplant surgery
  • Vascular surgery

Optional research year(s) can be taken after the PGY-2 or PGY-3 years.

Educational Conferences

Formal Educational Activities

  • ASSET course
  • ATLS (student, instructor)
  • Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery
  • Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery
  • Grand Rounds
  • Health Equity Curriculum 
  • Mock oral exams
  • Morbidity and mortality conference
  • Quarterly chair’s conference
  • Quarterly multidisciplinary grand rounds
  • Residents as teachers
  • Robotic Surgery Curriculum 
  • Rotation-specific conferences
  • SCORE Pre-Intern Curriculum 
  • SCORE weekly curriculum
  • Skills lab curriculum
  • Stop the Bleed