The General Surgery Residency Training Program

As one of the busiest and most respected healthcare facilities in the Philadelphia area, Lankenau Hospital is an ideal place to serve a surgical residency.There are over 5,000 inpatient and 4,000 outpatient admissions to the Department of Surgery each year. Approximately 2,500 of these are to the Division of General Surgery, almost equally divided between inpatients and outpatients. More than 10,000 operations are performed in the Department -- over 2,800 are General Surgery cases.

Choose from Two Residency Programs:

• The One-Year Preliminary Program provides a broad base of general surgery from which the trainee may progress into a chosen surgical subspecialty field. Medical or surgical specialty electives are available to further enhance this basic surgical training period. The program is adaptable as a one- or two-year experience, depending on individual needs.

• The Complete (or Five-Year) General Surgery Training Program encompasses a broad and definitive experience in general surgery. Extensive clinical material is available in all primary components of general surgery. Wide exposure is provided in the appropriate fields of surgical subspecialty education, including Cardiovascular Surgery, Critical Care, Orthopaedics, Urology, Plastic Surgery, Neurosurgery, Burns and Trauma, Pediatric Surgery, Gynecology, Surgical Oncology, and Transplantation.

Medical Research
The Lankenau Institute for Medical Research has worked together with various departments in the hospital to establish research programs for residents. Institute facilities, including the Clinical Research Unit (with clinical pharmacology), Electron Microscopy Unit, and Virology Laboratory, are available for any resident who so desires to undertake a research project, and the departments encourage the residents to do so.

Surgical Facilities
The Lankenau Campus includes an Ambulatory Procedure Center, providing medical and nursing care to patients undergoing procedures, both medical and surgical, which do not require them to stay overnight. New techniques are constantly being developed and implemented at Lankenau, including new methods of perfusion and blood conservation during open-heart surgery and the testing of new bypass methods and equipment. The Lankenau Hospital Kidney Transplant Program is one of the region's finest.

	Faculty Meet the Lankenau Hospital surgeons who serve as instructors for the General Surgery Residency Training Program. Meet The Faculty!
	Curriculum An overview of the complete rotation schedule for the One-Year and Five-Year Programs. View Curriculum!
	Clinical Experience As a resident in our program, you will gain intensive clinical experience through a regular series of conferences and grand rounds. Learn More!
	Compensation An overview of resident's duties, benefits and compensation. Learn More!
	Fellowship Opportunities Following their residency in General Surgery at Lankenau Hospital, many physicians have gone on to fellowships in many fields at leading institutions in the Philadelphia area and across the nation. Learn More!

To Learn More About the General Surgery Residency Training Program, Please Contact:

Daria Arcaro
General Surgery Residency Program Coordinator
(610) 645-2169 or arcarod@mlhs.org