The residency program provides comprehensive education in the principal components of general surgery through a process of residency-oriented supervised continuity of care from the time of the first patient encounter to the time of discharge from the outpatient follow-up clinic. The process is reinforced by repetition of clinical experiences in the principal components throughout the different stages of the residency.

Length of Surgery Residency:
Five years, plus a year of surgical research/critical care

Resident Complement
The surgery residency program at Hennepin County Medical Center is RRC approved for 28 residents in surgery as follows:

PGY-1: 4 categorical; 6 preliminary (designated)
PGY-2: 4 categorical; 2 preliminary
PGY-3: 4 categorical
* Research Year
PGY-4 4 categorical
PGY-5 4 categorical

*Between the 3rd and 4th clinical general surgery years of training, the HCMC general surgery residents spend one year in the research laboratory

Curriculum

First Year
The general surgery and preliminary surgery residents have the same experience rotating through the surgical services, Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine.

Second Year
During the second year, all residents rotate through three of the four general surgical services including vascular access surgery, neurosurgery and plastic and burn surgery.

The residents also rotate through the neurosurgery service; the emphasis of this experience is on the management of head injury and spinal cord trauma.

Third Year
The resident has the opportunity to be a chief resident in the Emergency Medicine Dept. Each resident has the opportunity to be chief resident in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit.

The first two off-campus rotations are during this year. The Park Nicollet Medical Center where the resident receives experience with both inpatient and outpatient general surgery and the Cambridge Hospital where the resident works with HCMC faculty members receiving experience in endoscopy procedures and general surgery. The rotations are:

* Critical Care - 3 months.
* Emergency Medicine chief resident - 3 months.
* Park Nicollet Medical Center - 3 months.
* Cambridge Hospital - 3 months.

Forth Year
The G-4 resident spends three months on the private general and vascular surgery service at HealthPartners, Inc. during this year. The resident also receives three months of intensive training in vascular surgery on an off-campus rotation.

Fifth Year
The entire fifth year is spent as a chief resident at HCMC in general surgery. The chief residents rotate through each of the four trauma/general surgical and vascular services and are fully responsible for the conduct of all aspects of each service including preoperative assessment, intraoperative and postoperative care, as well as outpatient clinic follow-up.

Application Process and Interviews
HCMC receives applications only through ERAS.

More details: Surgery Residency Program


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