10 most-viewed surgery-general residency programs

In 2023, FREIDA™ users tallied more than 96,000 views of surgery-general residency programs. In this list, we pare the 359 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, 2023. 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. Brookwood Baptist Health Program

2. University of Alabama Medical Center Program

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

4. University of Colorado Program

5. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Program

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

7. Danbury Hospital Program

8. Cleveland Clinic (Florida) Program

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

10. MedStar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Program

11. Florida Atlantic University Charles E Schmidt College of Medicine Program