Mercy Health logo

General Surgery Residency Program

Mercy Health
Full-time
On-site
Mercy Health – St. Vincent Medical Center
Medical Providers, Training Program, General Surgery, Medical Students

Program Overview

Welcome to the General Surgery Residency Program at Mercy Health – St. Vincent Medical Center. This is a five-year program with continued accreditation by ACGME and we are currently approved to accept three new residents per year. Our mission is to provide broad exposure to general surgery cases with strong specialty rotations provided in vascular, pediatric, trauma, cardiothoracic, minimally invasive/robotic and bariatric surgery.

St. Vincent Medical Center is a Level I Trauma/Tertiary Care Center with 2,500 trauma visits annually. St. Anne’s Hospital is a community hospital in the Mercy Health system that provides a broad exposure to routine general surgery cases. Our commitment is that graduating residents are ready for immediate entry into general surgery clinical practice or pursuit of fellowship training.

Program Aims 

  • To provide a robust community hospital learning environment to train residents 
  • To deliver the best high quality compassionate surgical care to all patients.
  • To provide training which is patient-centered, evidence-based and committed to the wellbeing of our community, especially those who are poor, dying and underserved. 
  • Broad exposure in both the central city and suburban patient populations that will prepare the resident to care for culturally diverse populations in a community hospital setting with commitment and compassion. 
  • To graduate compassionate, practice-ready general surgeons who are ready to enter the community hospital setting or seek fellowship training and will be committed to excellence, constant performance improvement and a desire to improve the quality of their patients' lives and their communities. 
  • To develop graduates who will choose to practice in underserved areas and demonstrate a sensitivity to culturally diverse patient and community needs.

Rotations and Curriculum — General Surgery Residency at St. Vincent Medical Center

Facilities

St. Vincent Medical Center

Mercy Health – St. Vincent Medical Center

St. Vincent is home to four Life Flight air ambulances, holds the highest designation for treating high risk mothers and babies, Comprehensive Stroke Center and is a Level I Trauma Center for adults and Level II for children. 

Located on the St. Vincent campus are: Orthopedics, Mercy Health Regional Heart and Vascular Institute, Mercy Health Neuroscience Institute and the area’s only Mobile Stroke Unit. St. Vincent provides a modern, attractive and secure campus and takes a leadership role in providing quality medical education and community development.

Mercy Health – St. Anne Hospital

St. Anne Hospital provides a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient healthcare services in a single location. St. Anne was designed and built with the patients, families and visitors in mind to offer quality care, comfort and convenience.

With an exceptional facility and an experienced team of healthcare professionals, St. Anne takes a leadership role in delivering healthcare to the residents of west Toledo and southeast Michigan.

St. Anne Hospital

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center 

UH Cleveland Medical Center is a 1,032-bed academic medical center providing primary, specialty and subspecialty medical and surgical care. UH’s Transplant Institute has been performing transplant surgeries since 1968, and the experience and expertise of their staff has led to excellent success rates. UH serves as the site for the program’s transplant surgical rotation.  The UH Transplant Institute performs transplants of the heart, lung, kidney, liver and pancreas.

Rotation Schedule

View the clinical curriculum for the General Surgery Residency Program at St. Vincent Medical Center.

Didactic Curriculum

Supplemental to the clinical curriculum, the program provides protected time for didactic activities:

  • Didactic activities include one half-day of protected time every week for resident and faculty lectures, case presentations, anatomy labs, simulation and more. Topics are based on the Surgical CORE (SCORE) curriculum of the American College of Surgeons and include weekly reading assignments and quizzes.
  • Each month, residents will participate in a Morbidity and Mortality conference, as well as Journal Club to discuss current medical literature and articles.
  • Scholarly activity is a required component of ACGME-accredited training, for which our institution provides oversight and support through a dedicated academic research coordinator.
 Robotic da Vinci use at St. Vincent Medical Center
Apply Now
Share this Clinical Rotation
Twitter Facebook Linkedin Email