HCA Healthcare Sunrise Health GME-MountainView Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community-based, HCA-affiliated general surgery residency spanning two Las Vegas hospitals—MountainView Hospital (advanced robotic surgery, minimally invasive focus) and Sunrise Hospital, a 690-bed Level I Trauma Center providing trauma, acute care surgery, surgical critical care, and pediatric surgery exposure. The program emphasizes high operative volume (>1,000 cases per graduating resident), hands-on training across general, vascular, and surgical oncology rotations, and access to five robotic surgical systems plus a dedicated Robotic Surgery Institute participating in the FIREFLY fluorescence-imaging clinical trial. Research is a required but supporting component (dedicated research space, monthly Journal Club, HCA's system-wide scholarly infrastructure) rather than a defining identity, and the stated mission is producing surgeons prepared for private practice, academic practice, or fellowship. As a young program (first class 2016) built within HCA's rapidly expanding GME consortium, it appears to value hands-on technical development, procedural volume, and adaptability across a broad case mix over a narrow academic-research track.