Education
General Surgery
Our 5-year General Surgery Residency Program is an academic program that is strongly weighted in clinical experience. Over the past 5 years, about two thirds of our graduates chose to enter a fellowship program and one third started to practice general surgery following their residency training.
Areas of Concentration
The General Surgery Residency Program is enhanced by offering the resident several areas of concentration, including the following:
- Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
- Surgical Crtitical Care
- Surgical oncology
- Colon and rectal surgery
- Vascular surgery
- Cardiothoracic surgery
- Hepatobiliary surgery
- Basic and advanced laparoscopic surgery
Surgical residents see patients in the surgical ambulatory care area and in faculty surgeons' private offices.
Facilities
Our General Surgery Residency Program is based at Allegheny General Hospital, which has 24 main operating rooms, including an integrated minimally invasive suite, 4 specialized operating rooms, and 7 operating rooms in the Ambulatory Surgery Center.
The hospital has a 24-bed surgical/trauma intensive care unit, 16-bed cardiothoracic intensive care unit, and 19-bed neurosurgical intensive care unit.
Allegheny General Hospital is a Level I Regional Resource Center for Trauma and annually admits more than 2,000 patients to the Division of Trauma Surgery. Our hospital was the first in the state to open a dedicated trauma intensive care unit, and our air ambulance service, LifeFlight, introduced in 1978, was the first aeromedical emergency transport system in the northeastern United States. Five LifeFlight helicopters transport more than 200 patients per month within a 150-mile radius of Pittsburgh.
