Texas Health Resources Fort Worth General Surgery Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community-based general surgery program in Fort Worth, academically affiliated with the Burnett School of Medicine at TCU, built around a single primary clinical site—a 707-bed, Level I trauma center and tertiary referral hospital performing roughly 30,000 major operations annually. The curriculum emphasizes broad exposure to trauma/acute care surgery, ICU management, and general surgery teams alongside subspecialty rotations (vascular, pediatric via Cook Children's, cardiothoracic, plastics, burn), supported by a structured simulation and robotics curriculum (Simsei, Intuitive Surgical courses) preparing residents for FLS/FES certification. Research is faculty-mentored and structurally supported (IRB guidance, QI projects, SCORE/TrueLearn resources) but framed as encouraged scholarly activity rather than a defining institutional output, and the program explicitly supports graduates pursuing either fellowship or direct practice. The stated identity centers on high-volume clinical training in a relationship-oriented, team-based community hospital culture, with explicit emphasis on wellness, mentorship structure, and compassionate, mission-driven care for a large four-county regional population.