Trinity Health Ann Arbor Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Trinity Health Ann Arbor is a longstanding (est. 1948), freestanding five-year categorical general surgery program embedded in a community-based, mission-driven Catholic health system with tertiary-level clinical capacity in trauma, vascular, and cardiac surgery. Residents accrue substantial independent operative volume (over 4,800 resident-covered main OR cases and 3,400+ outpatient center cases annually) and run their own longitudinal patient panel through the Academic Surgery Program clinic, a group-practice model giving graduated autonomy in both operative and outpatient surgical care. Roughly half of graduates pursue fellowship (trauma/critical care, colorectal, vascular, MIS, breast, cardiothoracic, plastic), while the other half enter general surgery practice directly, including rural and community settings, reflecting a program structured to support both pathways rather than pushing a single trajectory. The program's teaching ties to University of Toledo College of Medicine, its faculty's long-term institutional commitment, and its stated flexibility toward rural, international, or academic/research-oriented career goals signal a broad-based, practice-ready training identity rather than a narrow subspecialty pipeline.