Indiana University School of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

IU School of Medicine's General Surgery Residency is a large, university-based, quaternary-care program drawing clinical material from five downtown teaching hospitals (IU Health University Hospital, Riley Children's, Roudebush VA, Eskenazi Health, IU Health Methodist) plus suburban preceptor sites, giving residents exposure across academic, safety-net, VA, and community-style practice within one program. Research infrastructure is unusually deep for a categorical general surgery program: most residents take two or more dedicated research years, a dedicated seven-year Categorical-Research track guarantees two years of protected research, and residents can pursue a funded, degree-granting fellowship through the newly relocated Surgical Outcomes & Quality Improvement Center (SOQIC), which trains surgeon-scientists and has produced NEJM/JAMA first-author publications. The program explicitly tracks outcomes toward subspecialty fellowship (90% of graduates) at competitive academic centers, with only 10% entering private practice, and offers an interdisciplinary Global Health Pathway (including AMPATH-Kenya) and other GME-wide career pathways (clinician-educator, leadership) layered onto residency training. The program appears to value residents oriented toward academic surgical careers, scholarly productivity, and long-term subspecialization rather than early community practice.