Henry Ford Health-Henry Ford Macomb Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Henry Ford Macomb's General Surgery Residency is a community hospital-based, MSUCOM-affiliated program that trains residents predominantly through a DO-heavy cohort while maintaining ACGME structure and access to the broader Henry Ford academic system, including rotations at Henry Ford Hospital-Detroit, Grady Memorial (Atlanta), and other out-of-state sites for trauma and subspecialty exposure. The five-year curriculum is built on graded operative autonomy, SCORE-based didactics, and structured skills certification (FLS, FES, robotic training via Intuitive Surgical), with every resident required to complete a scholarly project annually rather than pursue a dedicated research track. Its mission language emphasizes a "community hospital learning environment," compassion for community-specific health needs, and social conscience, positioning the program as a generalist-producing, community-oriented surgical training ground rather than a subspecialty-fellowship pipeline. The heavy representation of osteopathic medical schools among current residents and the explicit encouragement to pursue MSUCOM assistant professorship signal a program identity closely tied to osteopathic surgical training within a community-hospital, Henry Ford-affiliated framework.