Womack Army Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

Womack Army Medical Center's General Surgery residency operates within a military medical treatment facility at Fort Bragg, one of the largest US Army installations, embedding training in a system whose explicit mission is sustaining the medical readiness and deployability of the fighting force rather than civilian academic or community-practice metrics alone. The program sits within a Directorate of Medical Education that frames scholarly inquiry and research as integral to its learning environment, and residents have access to an active operational research enterprise studying military-relevant conditions (musculoskeletal injury, TBI/blast injury, toxic exposures, biomarkers of readiness) rather than conventional surgical subspecialty research. Training is delivered in a tertiary military hospital serving active-duty service members and their families, with an institutional culture oriented toward producing surgeons capable of functioning as operational/deployable medical officers alongside surgical training. The program values residents who fit within the broader AMEDD mission structure, including its function as a teaching site for USU and VCOM trainees.