St. Mary Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

St. Mary Medical Center's General Surgery Residency is a newer, community-based program within the Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic system, headquartered in Langhorne with a primary secondary site at Nazareth Hospital in Northeast Philadelphia, explicitly built around broad-based general surgical training rather than subspecialty depth. The program supplements its community core with structured outside rotations for pediatric surgery (St. Christopher's), trauma (Penn Presbyterian/Penn), and transplant/hepatobiliary surgery (Thomas Jefferson), giving residents exposure to tertiary/quaternary complexity without being a tertiary center itself. Research is encouraged rather than central, supported by a dedicated research coordinator and resident-driven case reports, QI projects, and retrospective studies aimed at conference presentation or publication. The program explicitly states its graduates should be equipped either for immediate private practice or for fellowship of their choice, and describes itself as newer and deliberately education-focused rather than "scut"-driven, valuing residents who want broad operative competence in a low-friction community training environment.