Central Michigan University College of Medicine-CMU Medical Education Partners Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a five-year categorical general surgery program based at two Saginaw hospitals, Covenant HealthCare and MyMichigan Medical Center, which function as the primary tertiary referral centers for complex surgical care across mid- and northeastern Michigan, giving residents broad exposure to general and subspecialty surgical disease from a large regional catchment area. The program is explicitly built on a mission to expand surgical services in Northern Michigan and to train physicians for medically underserved and rural populations, reflecting CMU's broader community-engaged, distributed education model. Fellowship placement is a clear outcome pattern, with recent graduates matching into surgical critical care, colorectal, vascular, cardiothoracic, bariatric/MIS, transplant, and breast oncology fellowships, alongside some graduates entering general surgery practice directly. Faculty span a wide range of board-certified subspecialties (surgical oncology, colorectal, vascular, endocrine, laparoscopic, robotic, microsurgery), and the program emphasizes early operative exposure, progressive autonomy, and structured ABSITE-aligned didactics, while offering research infrastructure through the college's dedicated research symposium, publication funding, and population health research groups.