HCA Healthcare Riverside Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community-based, five-year categorical general surgery program at a Level 1 Trauma Center in downtown Riverside, serving a diverse, underserved ethnic and socioeconomic patient population without competition from subspecialty fellows on-site. The program emphasizes abundant, early operative experience (chiefs graduating with 1000+ cases), graduated autonomy, robotic surgery training via multiple da Vinci systems, and a resident-as-teacher model where seniors serve as teaching assistants to juniors. Breadth is extended through affiliations with Loma Linda (pediatric surgery, transplant), Arrowhead Regional (burn surgery), and City of Hope (surgical oncology), giving residents exposure to subspecialty pathology not routinely available in-house. As part of HCA's national GME system, the program provides scholarly activity support and access to a large multi-site patient-encounter database, but its identity centers on high-volume operative training and clinical service rather than a research-driven academic mission.