HCA HealthONE-Sky Ridge Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a five-year, HCA-affiliated community-based general surgery residency at a 284-bed community hospital in the Denver metro area, small in scale (3 residents per class) and still building its institutional track record. The clinical model emphasizes hands-on, one-on-one operative teaching and repetition-driven skill acquisition, with rotations expanding across multiple HCA HealthONE facilities (Sky Ridge, Rose) for breadth in trauma, colorectal, vascular, surgical oncology, and transplant exposure. A defining structural feature is the five-year robotic curriculum built around eight Xi robotic systems and a dedicated robotic OR wing, offering graduated, early, and progressive robotic operative autonomy uncommon at this program size. Scholarly activity is supported through HCA's national research infrastructure (system-wide data access, presentation/publication funding) but is not positioned as central to program identity, which instead prioritizes structured clinical repetition, faculty-resident mentorship, and resident well-being as an explicit institutional focus.