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
- Cardiothoracic 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
- Optional research year(s) can be taken after the PGY-2 or PGY-3 years
PGY-3
- 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
PGY-4
- Acute care surgery
- Cardiothoracic surgery
- Colorectal surgery
- Foregut surgery
- General surgery
- Pediatric surgery
- Surgical oncology
- Vascular surgery
PGY-5 (Chief Year)
- Acute care surgery
- Colorectal surgery
- Foregut surgery
- General surgery
- Surgical oncology
- Vascular surgery
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 weekly curriculum
- Senior resident readiness assessment (ACS SRRA)
- Skills lab curriculum
- Stop the Bleed
- Surgical street smarts