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APDS Recruitment Recommendations

The Association of Program Directors in Surgery was founded in 1977 with the purposes of:

  • Providing a forum for the exchange of information and for discussion on a wide range of subjects related to post-graduate surgical education

  • Maintaining high standards of surgical residency training by improving graduate surgical education and patient care

  • Providing advice, assistance, and support to program directors on matters pertaining to surgical education and to accreditation

  • Encouraging research into all aspects of the education and training of surgeons and surgical subspecialties

  • Representing the interests of program directors in the education and training of high quality surgeons to other organizations, individuals and governmental agencies or regulatory bodies

Program Recruitment Requirements Summary

The list below is a snapshot of the information collected from individual programs.

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Data listed below was provided by the listed institutions.

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Program Name
#Approved Categorical Positions
#Approved Preliminary Positions
Required Letters of Recommendation
Required Publications
Abington Memorial Hospital
5
6
Surgical Attending
No
AdventHealth Tampa
4
4
No
Advocate Health Care
7
2
No
Allegheny Health Network
7
4
Surgical Attending
2
Anne Arundel Medical Center
4
0
Arrowhead Regional Med Ctr/Kaiser Permanente (Fontana)
25
4
Surgical Attending
No
Ascension St Agnes
3
4
No
Ascension St Vincent Indianapolis
15
0
No
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
7
10
Surgical Attending
No
Baptist Health
5
5
No
BayCare Health System St. Joseph Hospital Program
4
0
No
Bayhealth Medical Center
3
0
No
Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center
3
0
No
Baylor University Medical Center
10
2
No
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
9
5
Surgical Attending, Chair, Program Director or Clerkship Director and attending surgeons, PhD, research mentors
No
Boston Medical Center
6
5
Surgical Attending
No
Brigham and Women's Hospital
45
10
Chair, Standardized, Surgical Attending, Research/mentor
No
Brooklyn Hospital Center
15
9
Chair, Surgical Attending
No
Cape Fear Valley Health
4
0
No
Carilion Virginia Tech
5
6
Surgical Attending
No
Carle Foundation Hospital
20
4
3
Carolinas Medical Center
6
1
Surgical Attending
No
Case Western Reserve University/Univ Hospitals
7
9
Surgical Attending
No
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
6
2
Chair, Surgical Attending
1
Charleston Area Medical Center
32
2
Surgical Attending
No
Christiana Care
7
1
No
Cleveland Clinic Akron General
4
0
Standardized, Surgical Attending
No
Cleveland Clinic Florida
20
4
No
Cleveland Clinic General Surgery Residency Program
55
13
No
Columbia University
7
4
No
Corewell Health West
7
6
ChairSurgical Attending
No
Creighton University
5
2
Surgical Attending
No
Creighton University School of Medicine Phoenix
8 per year
12
No
Creighton University School of Medicine Phoenix
8
12
Surgical Attending and PD or Chair
No
Danbury Hospital - Northwell Health
4
4
Surgical Attending
Yes - 1
Dartmouth Hitchcock
4
6
No
Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University
8
12
Surgical Attending
No
Dignity Health East Valley
3
3
No
ECU Health Medical Center
30
4
Surgical Attending
5
East Tennessee State University
7
4
No
Emory University School of Medicine
10
4
Chair, Surgical Attending, Program Director
No
Florida Atlantic University
7
5
Chair, Surgical Attending
5
Florida International University / Baptist Health
5
4
Chair or PD
3
Garnet Health Medical Center
15
0
Chair, Standardized, Surgical Attending
No
General Surgery
5
4
No
George Washington University
25
2
Surgical Attending
No
Gundersen Foundation General Surgery Residency Program
4
0
Surgical Attending
No
Guthrie/Robert Packer Hospital
4
4
Surgical Attending
No
HCA Florida Healthcare/Westside/Northwest Hospital
20
6
2
HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital
3
1
1
HCA Medical City Healthcare (Plano) Surgery Program
35
0
HCA Memorial Health University Medical Center
5
0
ChairSurgical Attending
No
HCA Swedish General Surgery Program
3
0
ChairStandardizedSurgical Attending
3-Feb
HCA Trident Health
4
4
Surgical Attending
No
Hackensack University Medical Center
5
2
No
Henry Ford Genesys
20
0
No
Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit/Henry Ford Health
6
4
Surgical Attending, & 1 of following-PD,aPD,clerkship director, chair, Standardized
No
Henry Ford Jackson Hospital
20
0
No
Henry Ford Providence Hospital
3
6
Surgical Attending
No
Howard University
5
5
Surgical Attending
No
Indiana University General Surgery
11
4
Surgical Attending
No
Inova Fairfax Medical Campus
35
0
Surgical Attending
No
Inspira Medical Center Vineland
4
0
No
JFK University Medical Center General Surgery
10
0
ChairSurgical Attending
No
Jefferson Health Medical Education/Jefferson Einstein Montgomery Hospital
20
5
No
Jersey Shore University Medical Center
3
1
No
Jewish Hospital
10
4
Surgical Attending
No
Johns Hopkins
6
12
Surgical Attending
No
Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles
4
6
Surgical Attending
No
Kaweah Health
3
2
Chair
No
Kern Medical
10
2
ChairSurgical Attending
No
Lahey Clinic
5
2
Surgical Attending
No
Lehigh Valley Health Network
6
2
Surgical Attending
No
Lenox Hill Hospital - Northwell Health
4
3
Surgical Attending
1
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center Program
3
4
No
Loma Linda
7
15
Surgical Attending, Chair or PD
No
Los Angeles County-Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
6
9
Surgical Attending
No
Louisiana State University School of Medicine
55
11
Surgical Attending
No
Loyola University Medical Center
7
10
No
MaineHealth Maine Medical Center
23(expanding to 30)
0
Surgical Attending
No
Marshall General Surgery Residency Program
4
3
No
Marshall University Consortium: Rural General Surgery Residency
3
0
No
Mass General Brigham / MGH
10
6
No
Mayo Clinic (Jacksonville)
25
3
Chair, Standardized, Surgical Attending, Program Director
5
Mayo Clinic - Rochester
11
10
Surgical Attending
No
McGovern Medical School, UTHealth in Houston
9
15
No
MedStar Baltimore General Surgery
20
2
No
MedStar Georgetown General Surgery
50
11
No
Medical College of Georgia
36
4
No
Medical College of Wisconsin
8
3
Surgical Attending
3-Feb
Medical University of South Carolina
8
10
Surgical Attending
No
Memorial Healthcare System, Hollywood, Florida
6
0
16
Methodist Dallas Program
15
3
Chair, Surgical Attending
No
Methodist Healthcare San Antonio
4
0
Chair, Standardized, Surgical Attending
No
MetroHealth System/Case Western Reserve University
4
4
Surgical Attending
No
Morehouse School of Medicine
4
6
1
Mount Carmel Health System
3
3
No
Mount Sinai Chicago
4
4
Surgical Attending
5
NYU Langone Health
8
8
3
NYU Langone Hospital long Island
25
10
Chair, Surgical Attending
3
New Hanover Regional Medical Center
5
1
No
New York Medical College at Metropolitan Hospital Center
5
9
Chair, Surgical Attending
No
Northeast Georgia Medical Center
6
4
No
Nuvance Health - Vassar Brothers Medical Center
3
0
No
Ochsner Clinic Foundation
8
1
Chair, Surgical Attending
No
Oregon Health & Science University
13
12
No
Penn State Hershey Medical Center
5
10
No
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
6
0
No
Reading Hospital /Tower Health
20
0
No
Rush University Medical Center
9
16
Surgical Attending
No
Rutgers Health Community Medical Center General Surgery Residency
4
2
Surgical Attending
No
SSM Health St. Louis University
5
8
Surgical Attending
No
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences
8
20
Surgical Attending
No
SUNY Upstate General Surgery
6
6
Surgical Attending
No
Saint Joseph Hospital General Surgery Residency
6
5
Surgical Attending
1
San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium
5 (2 Air Force, 3 Army)
7
No
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
20
0
Surgical Attending
No
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore
4
0
No
South Pointe Hospital General Surgery - Cleveland Clinic
10
0
1
Southwest Healthcare MEC Surgery Residency
3
3
Surgical Attending
No
Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System
4/year
3
No
St Anthony Hospital
2 per year
0
No
Stamford Hospital
3
3
No
Stanford General Surgery
8
18
3
Staten Island University Hospital
20
8
Surgical Attending
No
Sutter Health/Sutter Roseville Medical Center
20
2
No
Swedish General Surgery Residency Program - Seattle
5
5
Surgical Attending
No
Temple University
7
11
No
Texas Health Resources Fort Worth
3
0
Surgical Attending
No
Texas Tech
25
6
No
Thomas Jefferson University
7
5
No
TidalHealth
4
2
No
TriHealth (Good Samaritan Hospital)
5
1
No
Tulane University
5
6
none
No
UMass Chan Medical School-worcester
8
Pgy1-4, PGY2-2
>0
UPMC Medical Education (Pittsburgh) Program
8
21
Surgical Attending
No
UPMC Mercy
4
5
No
UT Health San Antonio
9
24
No
University at Buffalo
9
8
No
University of Alabama Medical Center
8 per year, 40 total
10, 2 prelim-1 & 1 prelim-2
2-Jan
University of Arizona-Tucson
50
13
No
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
5
5
Chair, Surgical Attending
No
University of California Davis Health
9
16
No
University of California San Francisco (East Bay)
7
9
Surgical Attending
No
University of California at Irvine
6
12 (PGY 1 x 8, PGY 2 x 4)
Surgical Attending
7
University of Chicago
8
2
Chair & Surgical Attending
No
University of Cincinnati Medical Center/College of Medicine
7
4
Chair, Surgical Attending
1
University of Colorado
12
12
Surgical Attending
2
University of Connecticut
40
9
Surgical Attending
No
University of Florida
6 per year
11 total
No
University of Hawaii
5
0
Chair, Surgical Attending
No
University of Illinois - Chicago
7
9
No
University of Kansas - Wichita
7
2
Surgical Attending
No
University of Kansas Medical Center
6
0
Standardized, Surgical Attending
No
University of Maryland
42
11
2
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School-Worcester
8
4 PGY1, 2 PGY2
No
University of Michigan
7
4
No
University of Michigan Health-Sparrow
5
1
No
University of Missouri-Columbia
5
7
No
University of Missouri/Kansas General Surgery
5
4
3
University of Nebraksa Medical Center
38
2
Standardized
No
University of New Mexico
7
5
Chair, Surgical Attending
No
University of North Carolina Hospitals
7
8
Chair, Surgical Attending
No
University of North Dakota
6
3
Surgical Attending
No
University of Oklahoma
7
7
Surgical Attending
No
University of Oklahoma - Tulsa
4
2
No
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
7
6-Feb
Chair, Surgical Attending, PD
No
University of South Alabama
6
4
Surgical Attending
No
University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga
6
2
Surgical Attending
No
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
2
0
Surgical Attending
No
University of Texas Southwestern
13
16
No
University of Toledo General Surgery
5
7
Surgical Attending &PD or Chair
No
University of Utah
6
0
Surgical Attending
No
University of Vermont
4/year
4 PGY-1 prelims
No
University of Virginia
6
5
Surgical Attending
12
University of Washington
64
13
Chair, Surgical Attending
No
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
40
24
Surgical Attending
No
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
6
6
Surgical Attending
No
Virginia Mason Medical Center
25
7
Surgical Attending
5
Virginia Tech Carilion
5
7
Surgical Attending
No
WellSpan York Hospital
5 per year
1
Surgical Attending
No
Wellstar Kennestone
4
1
Surgical Attending & PD, clerkship director or chair
No
Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD
6
0
No
Willis Knighton Surgery Residency Program
3
0
2-Jan
Wright State University
8
2
No
Yale New Haven Hospital. Yale School for Medicine
10
20
Surgical Attending, & chair, PD, CD
5
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at South Shore University Hospital
3
5
Chair, Surgical Attending

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