Welcome to the General Surgery Residency Training Program at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
Thank you for visiting our website to learn more about surgical training at Columbia-Presbyterian. Beginning with the John Jones, the first professor of surgery in the Americas, through the 1935 performance of the pancreatico-duodenectomy by Columbia surgeon Allen O. Whipple to the first Robot-Assisted Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, Columbia has been at the forefront of surgical practice. Today, the Department of Surgery remains committed to providing the highest level of training to its residents and fellows, providing them with the knowledge and skills to become the surgical leaders of tomorrow.Through rotations at Columbia-Presbyterian Milstein Hospital, the Allen Pavilion Hospital, and Overlook Hospital in New Jersey, residents are exposed to the entire spectrum of general surgery from an underserved clinic population to a suburban community hospital to a large quaternary care medical center taking international referrals. The large patient population provides the residents with progressive independence in the diagnosis and management of surgical disease.
The residency training program is designed to produce academic surgeons dedicated to three core strengths: clinical excellence, education, and innovation. Within our clinical program, we offer a wide spectrum of surgical subspecialties, such as thoracic and abdominal organ transplantation, vascular surgery, laparoscopic surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, pediatric surgery, hepatobiliary surgery, and colorectal surgery, all in addition to extensive general surgery training. The heavy operative experience offered to residents in each of these fields is unmatched by any program in the country, and offering the most advanced and innovative procedures has been a commitment by the hospital and Department. As independent operating and taking junior residents through cases increases with each PGY year, each individual resident can be assured on becoming a technically superb and safe surgeon. The educational component of our program offers a multitude of didactic and hands-on teaching events, each specifically personally run by attendings who are experts in that field. These opportunities include the latest in laparoscopic training simulators, hands-on animal surgery sessions, weekly conferences, specialized small-group sessions for certain PGY years, and yearly mentoring pairings with attendings. The residents are expected to act as teachers to the junior residents and medical students. This responsibility is a core fundamental to our training. Finally, the vast resources at the Medical Center and undergraduate campus allow for research investigation in almost any discipline. From hundreds of clinical trials being run by surgical specialists to ground-breaking basic science research (supported by our Division of Surgical Science), our Department hosts one of the pre-eminent surgical research programs in the country. Residents are given the opportunity and encouraged to perform two years of research.
Applications to the program are made through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) and the program participates in the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP). You may also visit their sites for more information on the application and matching process.
We invite you learn more about us. If you would like to contact us, please do not hesitate to do so. The program coordinator can be reached by email or phone . In addition, you can visit the Department of Surgery website for more information about the Department's activities.
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