Stony Brook Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

Stony Brook's General Surgery Residency is a university-based tertiary care program anchored at Stony Brook University Hospital, a 1.5-million-catchment referral center on Long Island, with additional rotations at Northport VA, Good Samaritan Hospital, and Stony Brook Southampton that expose residents to community and academic practice models side by side. The program mandates at least one resident research project annually with presentation at Research Day, offers a formal 1-2 year dedicated research pathway pairing residents with departmental faculty and basic scientists across microbiology, physiology, and biomedical engineering, and supports this through a dedicated resident research award and involvement in institutional K-23/K-30 NIH grant mechanisms. Training follows a graduated-autonomy model across five years with broad subspecialty exposure (transplant, cardiothoracic, surgical oncology, trauma/acute care, MIS/bariatrics, head & neck), and the program explicitly frames itself as preparing residents equally well for community practice, research, or academic surgery careers. Nearly a third of graduates since 1975 remain in practice on Long Island, reflecting a program that values regional service alongside academic rigor.