Highlights of Morristown Medical Center's five-year program:
- 38 residents, graduating seven chief residents each year.
- Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) approved program.
- Operating experience of recently graduated chief residents amounts to more than 1,200 cases.
- Rectangular program, accepting seven categorical residents to proceed through five years of training.
- Graduates pursue careers in general surgery, surgical subspecialties and new high-tech aspects of minimally invasive surgery, including robotic surgery.
- More than 75 percent of the past five years' graduates obtained cardiac, cardiothoracic, endocrine, surgical oncology, laparoscopic, vascular and colorectal fellowships.
- Seven surgical services, each with an average daily census of more than 20 patients.
- 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.
- Gagnon Institute of Bioskills Training and Innovation for inanimate training in both open and minimal access techniques.
- Member of American College of Surgeons National Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) and recognized by the organization as:
- One of 37 ACS NSQIP participating hospitals to achieve meritorious outcomes for surgical patient care in 2012.
- One of only 25 hospitals in the United States to achieve exemplary outcomes for surgical patient care in 2009.
- American College of Surgeons Level I Trauma Center.
- Morristown Medical Center was again ranked the number one hospital in New Jersey by U.S. News & World Report in its 2020-2021 Best Hospital rankings, and was ranked among the best 50 hospitals in the nation for Cardiology & Heart Surgery, Gynecology and Orthopedics. It was also recognized in all ten common adult procedures and conditions. Learn more >
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