Surgery

Since 2012, Flushing Hospital Medical Center General Surgery Residency Program has been an active five-year program with continued accreditation by the ACGME that provides residents with a broad experience. The program is well rounded with an excellent balance of clinical training, structured education, and research opportunities. The main goal is to prepare residents to become capable surgeons in the settings of their choice, i.e. surgical practice with robotic skills, research, academia or fellowships. There are three residents per PGY level and 15 approved categorical positions. We promote a familial atmosphere and consider resident well-being as a priority

Residents have gone on to practice and a wide variety of fellowships: Surgical critical care and trauma, Breast surgery, minimally invasive/ Robotic and Bariatric surgery, Endocrine surgery, Burns, Hand surgery, surgical oncology, vascular surgery and cosmetic surgery, to name just a few. Keeping with our tradition of fostering education and research, many of our past graduates are now in leadership positions, as program directors and associate program directors and division chiefs.

Residents participate in scheduled teaching conferences, including a weekly Mortality/Morbidity conference, Tumor Board, GI conference, Journal Club, Critical Care, basic science lectures, weekly quizzes and daily SICU and Chairman’s sign-in/critique meeting where patient management is discussed. Medical students from 4 medical schools rotate in our department, allowing residents to develop their teaching skills.

Residents at all levels are required to participate in scholarly activities brought to fruition in our department as a yearly minimum of 30 projects, culminating in peer reviewed publications and poster /forum presentation at national & regional conferences. Graduating residents often count 10 to 15 completed projects in their portfolio. Each resident works with a faculty mentor, medical students and a robust research department to develop IRB proposals and research protocols and conduct the study from data collection to literature review and editing.

As a part of our program, residents train at the following affiliate sites:

• Westchester Medical Center NY medical college: Trauma, Burns, Transplant,
• Cohens Children hospital: Pediatric Surgery
• Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: Surgical Oncology

Strengths of the program: Our program is in Queens, the most ethnically diverse borough of the USA, with hundreds of spoken languages. Diversity and inclusion are reflected in our faculty, our residents, students as well as those we serve. As you train with us, you will have the unique opportunity to enjoy the amazing blend of cultures in music, traditions and cuisine.

• You will be training in a center of excellence for many surgical specialties. Flushing hospital also has residences in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, OB-GYN and Dentistry
• You will have the opportunity to use simulation training workshops in Robotic, Bariatric and vascular surgery to name a few.
• You will have the opportunity to expand your interest in research and contribute to literature, building robust scholarly activity portfolio.
• You will have the necessary tools to follow in the footsteps of past graduates and embark on a fellowship of your choice or to function as an independent general surgeon
• You will be joining a program interested in your growth as a surgeon, but also your wellbeing as an individual.