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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
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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