Surgery

This five-year program is based at Morristown Memorial Hospital.

• 25 residents, graduating four chief residents each year.
• Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) approved program.
• Operating experience of recently graduated chief residents amounts to more than 1,000 cases.
• Rectangular program, accepting four categorical residents to proceed through five years of training. In the first year, there are also four preliminary PGY-I positions.
• Graduates pursue careers in general surgery, surgical subspecialties and new high-tech aspects of minimally invasive surgery.
• Over 75 percent of the past five years' graduates obtained cardiac, surgical oncology and laparoscopic fellowships.
• Performs over 25,000 operations yearly in main OR and free-standing ambulatory surgery center.
• Five surgical services, each with an average daily census of more than 30 patients.

Offerings

• Provides a balance of high-tech surgery, quality inpatient and outpatient care, and scholarly activities.
• Program's strength lies in operative general surgery. Emphasis is placed on the development of a refined surgical technique through a wide array of exercise and individual instruction.
• Work in the Reeves Surgical Research Laboratory, focusing on molecular biology and genetics of vascular and gastrointestinal injury.
• Bioskills Laboratory for inanimate training in both open and minimal access techniques.
• Member of American College of Surgeons National Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP)
• American College of Surgeons Level I Trauma Center
• Advanced laparoscopic and thoracoscopic techniques taught , including: bariatric, colorectal, pediatric, and endovascular surgery