10 most-viewed surgery-general residency programs

In 2024, FREIDA™ users tallied more than 100,000 views of surgery-general residency programs. In this list, we pare the 367 programs down to the 10 surgery general residency programs ranked at the top for user interest.

Rankings are based on identified medical student activity on FREIDA™, the AMA Residency & Fellowship Database®, from Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2024. FREIDA allows medical students to search for a residency or fellowship from more than 13,000 programs—all accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

General surgery is a diverse specialty that is both the foundation for many surgical subspecialties and a distinct field in and unto itself. A fully trained general surgeon possesses the knowledge and ability to intervene on a variety of surgical issues across the life span, from the child with pyloric stenosis, to the victim of a gunshot wound to the chest, to the elderly patient with a recently diagnosed melanoma of the leg.

Key characteristics of a sound general surgeon will include having broad understanding of anatomy and physiology paired with the technical skill to carry out appropriately selected procedures. This combination, while challenging to master, provides general surgeons with unparalleled opportunities to cure and palliate the ill, injured and suffering.

1. University of Alabama Medical Center Program

2. Brookwood Baptist Health Program

3. University of Colorado Program

4. Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Phoenix) Program

5. MedStar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Program

6. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Program

7. Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine Program

8. Cleveland Clinic (Florida) Program

9. Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Program

10. Danbury Hospital Program