St Barnabas Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

SBH Health System's General Surgery Residency is a five-year, community-based, safety-net program at a Level 2 regional trauma center in the Bronx, serving a medically complex, underserved urban population. The curriculum emphasizes broad operative exposure across acute care, trauma (blunt and penetrating), bariatric, colorectal, thoracic, vascular, and reconstructive surgery, with first-year residents operating from the start and outside rotations at Jacobi Burn Center, Montefiore New Rochelle, and Westchester Medical Center for subspecialty exposure. Its modest annual class size (4 categorical PGY-1s plus preliminary spots) gives residents close, direct access to attendings rather than competing across a large cohort, and research is available but resident-driven rather than institutionally mandated. The program explicitly frames itself around community identity, cultural sensitivity, and workforce diversity reflecting the Bronx population it serves, indicating a preference for residents comfortable in a high-acuity, resource-limited, socioeconomically diverse safety-net setting.