Holy Name Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

Holy Name's General Surgery Residency is a five-year community hospital program in Teaneck, NJ, built around one-on-one mentorship from named subspecialty faculty rather than a large layered academic hierarchy. Residents rotate through general, bariatric/minimally invasive, vascular, breast, colorectal, endocrine, thoracic, and surgical oncology services, with additional operative privileges at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and St. Joseph's University Medical Center, and train using the Russell Berrie Institute's simulation center. The program explicitly frames its outcome as producing surgeons for "academic or community-based" practice rather than committing to a single fellowship pipeline, and emphasizes evidence-based, patient-centered training within an intimate hospital setting near New York City. Institutional clinical research infrastructure exists (Institute for Clinical Research) but is not tied into the residency curriculum as a defining feature, indicating research is present but secondary to hands-on operative and mentorship-based training.