Allegheny General is recognized as one of the nation's leading hospitals, with particular excellence in cancer care, cardiac care, orthopaedics, neurosciences and trauma.

General Surgery Residency Program
The five-year General Surgery Residency Program provides an academic setting strongly weighted in clinical experience. The program is accredited by the Residency Review Committee of Surgery and is one of Allegheny General's accredited residencies. The program's primary goal is to prepare residents to function as independent and highly qualified practitioners of surgery. During the past five years, more than 85 percent of the residents have passed their surgical Boards on the first try. Over the past five years, about two-thirds of our graduates chose to do a fellowship and one-third of our graduates began to practice general surgery following their residency training.


The General Surgery Residency Program is enhanced by areas of concentration, including trauma/critical care, surgical oncology, colon and rectal surgery, vascular surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, hepatobiliary surgery and both basic and advanced laparoscopic surgery. Surgical residents see patients in the surgical ambulatory care area and in faculty surgeons' private offices.

The General Surgery Residency Program is based at Allegheny General Hospital. There are 24 main operating rooms, including an integrated minimally invasive suite, four obstetrics and gynecology operating rooms and seven operating rooms in the ambulatory surgery center. There is a 24-bed surgical/trauma intensive care unit, 16-bed cardiothoracic intensive care unit and a 19-bed neurosurgical intensive care unit.

For over 25 years, Allegheny General Hospital has been designated as a Level I Regional Resource Center for Trauma. Annual admissions are 2,750 with over 2,000 of those cases admitted to the Division of Trauma Surgery. The staff of the 24-bed Trauma Surgical Intensive Care Unit provides critical care services to 800 trauma patients annually. LifeFlight, introduced in 1978, was the first aeromedical emergency transport system in the northeastern United States. Five LifeFlight helicopters transport more than 200 patients per month within a 150-mile radius of Pittsburgh. Allegheny General Hospital was also the first in the Commonwealth to open its own dedicated trauma intensive care unit. The emergency room cares for 45,000 patients annually. In the emergency room, there are 31 examination/treatment rooms, including five trauma resuscitation bays and a CT scanner within the department. The trauma intensive care unit is adjacent to the emergency room.