Cleveland Clinic Foundation Program

Program Identity & Fit

Cleveland Clinic's 0+5 Integrated Vascular Surgery Residency is anchored in one of the largest vascular surgery departments in the country, offering exceptionally high open and endovascular surgical volume across a tertiary academic main campus supplemented by community hospital (Fairview, Hillcrest, Marymount) and VA-based rotations for breadth of practice settings. The curriculum is deliberately staged with dedicated endovascular blocks distributed across all five years, simulation-based skills training built from resident feedback, and structured multidisciplinary conferences, reflecting an emphasis on progressive complexity and technical mastery from PGY-1. A dedicated one-year research fellowship option and the institution's deep clinical trials and translational research infrastructure signal that research participation is built into the training pathway rather than incidental. The program explicitly frames its mission around producing not just technically excellent vascular surgeons but future leaders in the field, valuing residents who can handle early, cumulative operative responsibility within a high-acuity, high-volume academic system.