Intermountain Health-Intermountain Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a newly ACGME-accredited (2024), five-year, community-focused general surgery residency at Intermountain Medical Center, a 500-bed, non-university-owned tertiary referral and Level I trauma center that serves as the flagship of the Intermountain Health system west of the Rockies. Training centers on high clinical and operative volume across trauma, surgical oncology, transplant, vascular, colorectal, and bariatric surgery, supplemented by rotations at Utah Valley Hospital and Primary Children's, with a structured robotics curriculum beginning in intern year and a dedicated simulation lab. The program emphasizes hands-on clinical management, mock oral boards, and multidisciplinary tumor conferences rather than an investigator-driven research identity, positioning itself as a practice-ready, community-oriented training pathway loosely collaborating with the University of Utah rather than a traditional academic research powerhouse. As a young program building its own identity and culture, it appears to value residents who thrive with early operative autonomy, broad general-surgery exposure, and commitment to regional/community surgical practice in the Mountain West.