Baylor All Saints Medical Center Fort Worth Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a five-year categorical general surgery program based at a large tertiary community hospital in Fort Worth, newly affiliated with the Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at TCU, embedded within the Baylor Scott & White Health system. The clinical identity is defined by high-volume subspecialty services layered onto core general surgery training - transplant, cardiothoracic, head and neck (described as one of the busiest H&N services in the country), colorectal, HPB, and MIS - with additional trauma exposure at John Peter Smith Hospital (Level 1) and pediatric surgery at Cook Children's. The program explicitly emphasizes robotic and minimally invasive technique adoption across services, ERAS-compliant colorectal care, and a "business-minded physician" orientation preparing residents for practice leadership rather than foregrounding research output. Faculty composition (transplant and cardiothoracic surgeons as PD/APDs) and rotation structure suggest a program that values residents comfortable moving fluidly across high-acuity subspecialty services and functioning within a large multi-site health system rather than a single academic silo.