General Surgery Residency Requirements

Baylor College of Medicine

• The Baylor College of Medicine general surgery residency, in Houston, Texas, is a five-year program. Each year, eight applicants are accepted, replacing eight residents who graduated. During the first two years of the residency at Baylor, you will be assigned to hospital where you will work with an experienced surgeon. Interested students have the opportunity to work with burn patients. As a third-year residents, you'll do a pediatric surgery rotation and, in general, will have greater responsibilities. By year four and five, you are required to be on call and assist in, as well as lead, surgical services. In May 2010, Dr. F. Charles Brunicardi became the program director.

  Baylor College of Medicine
  One Baylor Plaza
  Houston, Texas 77030
  (713) 798-8070
  baylor.edu

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

• As a UT Southwestern General Surgery resident, you must complete a five-year program. As a first-year resident, you are required to do rotations to learn the different surgery specialties. By year two, you'll learn about treating very ill patients and do a weeklong preceptorship with a surgeon in private practice. By year four, you will be required to spend a month in San Angelo, Texas doing a special rotation like vascular surgery. By the end of the fifth year, you will have been required to complete a minimum of 1,000 major operations.

  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
  5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
  Dallas, Texas 75390
  (214) 648-3111
  utsouthwestern.edu

Duke School of Medicine

• The General Surgery Residency program at Duke School of Medicine is a five-year program in Durham, North Carolina. As a first-year resident, you must earn an operating room certification proving that you understand the basic knowledge a general surgeon needs, for example, in sterile technique and clerical responsibility. By year three, residents are required to have participated in surgeries for all patients. As a fifth-year resident, you should be capable of performing surgery on your own.

  Duke University Medical Center
  General Surgery Residency Training Program Coordinator
  Department of Surgery
  DUMC 3654
  (919) 681-5983
  duke.edu