With more than 700 inpatient adult beds, Moses Campus is the largest inpatient acute care hospital within the Montefiore Health System and home to Children’s Hospital at Montefiore. Moses boasts the busiest emergency department in the Montefiore system, seeing roughly 250,000 patient evaluations each year. Moses is also home to 25 operating rooms and six critical care units, which provide care for surgical, cardiothoracic, medical, neurosurgical, pediatric and step-down patients.

The majority of non-critical surgery patients are admitted to Foreman 7 (Silver Zone), where residents have workspace and on-call rooms. General Surgery Residents gain experience in a number of rotations at Moses Campus, including acute care and general surgery, bariatric and MIS surgery, colon and rectal surgery, pancreas and endocrine surgery, pediatric surgery, transplantation, night float and endoscopy. Residents also have the opportunity to attend a weekly morbidity and mortality conference, grand rounds, and service-related weekly journal clubs and conferences for acute care and general surgery and bariatrics/MIS surgery. Faculty at Moses Campus maintain academic office and clinic space in the Greene Medical Arts Pavilion (MAP), where they see patients in the ambulatory setting.

Located on Montefiore’s Einstein Campus, Jack D. Weiler Hospital is a 403-bed tertiary care facility with 17 operating rooms, where nearly 2,000 general surgery operations are performed each year. Over the course of their five-year residency, our residents participate in 13 clinical rotations at Weiler, including acute care surgery, surgical oncology, colorectal surgery, breast surgery, vascular surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, plastic surgery, night float and pediatric intensive care. 

Weiler’s location adjacent to Albert Einstein College of Medicine gives our residents easy access to study facilities, gross anatomy labs, a robust medical library and research opportunities. Residents have access to two call rooms, multiple newly renovated resident work rooms, a resident locker room, a kitchenette and onsite administrative support. Residents also train in a number of clinics in close proximity to the Einstein Campus, including the Center for Cancer Care.

One of New York City’s Health + Hospitals’ (NYC H+H) eleven acute care hospitals, Jacobi Medical Center (JMC) is one of the busiest Level 1 trauma centers in New York City, and a leader in trauma and surgical critical care delivery. JMC is home to one of only three burn centers in New York City. General Surgery Residents spend about one-third of their time at Jacobi Medical Center, gaining independence and graduated autonomy while rotating on the trauma, Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU), burn unit, general surgery and vascular and thoracic services. 

Jacobi Medical Center houses the Institute of Medical Simulation and Advanced Learning (iMSAL), where our residents gain experience with frequent trauma simulations, including the innovative Cut Suit program. Additional educational opportunities include weekly Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) conferences, monthly journal club, and multidisciplinary conferences with emergency medicine and orthopedics. Jacobi Medical Center is also home to the Warren Wetzel Trauma/Emergency Medicine Symposium, which is the only annual trauma conference in the region and draws some of the biggest names in the field as visiting professors. 

During surgical rotations at Wakefield Campus, General Surgery Residents gain valuable teaching and operating experience and fine-tune their skills with challenging consultations and exposure to a wide variety of surgical pathology. Wakefield caters to a large number of local Bronx nursing homes and a full-time geriatrics service, and handles a high volume of elderly surgical patient referrals. The Wakefield emergency room runs 24/7, catering to EMS ambulance intake and community walk-ins. 

We hold surgical clinic every Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and cases are typically scheduled in the OR afterwards. Residents are exposed to an acute care surgical case mix including appendicitis, cholecystitis, diverticulitis, intestinal obstructions, perforations and all Level 2 surgical emergencies. Operating experience is distributed among the senior and junior residents based on their technical capabilities, however a large case volume offers junior residents the opportunity to operate. 

Hutchinson Campus is a highly streamlined ambulatory care center that delivers efficient, patient-focused care. Residents spend time at Hutchinson during their dedicated ambulatory surgery months, as well as on select other services that intermittently have cases here. This state-of-the-art building encompasses several floors of medical offices, three dedicated floors for our outpatient surgical center and twelve spacious operating rooms (ORs). 

Hutchinson Campus provides fast turn-over as an ambulatory center, sometimes completing six or seven procedures per day in each operating room, which allows for a busy and intense surgical training experience. Residents are given experience with a range of procedures, including laparoscopic cholecystectomies, inguinal hernia repairs and anorectal procedures. Without inpatients, there is no need for daily rounding and weekend calls, allowing residents to dedicate extra time to research and studying.

Our primary focus is to train residents to become leaders in surgery. To achieve this goal, each clinical rotation is designed with an education conference which supplements clinical experiences over the duration of the residency. Our surgical skills curriculum is anchored in the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) and Association of Program Directors in Surgery (APDS) curriculum. To facilitate the acquisition of surgical skills, we use state-of-the-art simulation, including endoscopy, laparoscopy, porcine surgery labs and robotics. 

We provide residents with a breadth of research opportunities across outcomes research, disparities research, trauma and critical care, cancer research, surgical innovation and cardiac research. Along with our structured research didactic program, we offer an NIH-T32 training program in surgical oncology research, which provides funded, structured and mentored time for aspiring scientists to focus on scientific inquiry. Our department highly encourages research through a yearly event dedicated to resident research, along with funding for residents at all levels to attend national conferences and present their research.  

After the PGY2, residents have the opportunity to take time off their clinical rotations for a two-year research sabbatical. Typically, three to four residents in any given class elect to take this sabbatical, and opt to find research at Montefiore Einstein or another lab or university. 

All education programs have been consolidated and occur on Friday mornings between 7:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. At grand rounds, local, national and international experts deliver presentations in their specific areas of expertise. Residents participate in weekly morbidity and mortality conferences held at all Montefiore campuses and Jacobi Medical Center. Masters of Surgery lectures, which occur on the first Friday of every month, offer practicing physicians and nurses current information on the latest topics and controversies in surgery. 

Residents attend a Surgical Council on Resident Education (SCORE) conference organized by residents with faculty facilitators. The conference is centered around SCORE’s mission to improve the education of general surgery residents in the United States through the development of a standard national curriculum for general surgery residency training. The conference features a case-based discussion led by faculty experts in surgery and other disciplines, and a weekly quiz called “This Week In SCORE,” which allows residents to assess their learning and integrate weekly reading with case conferences. 

Located on the Moses Campus, Montefiore Institute for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIMIS) is a comprehensive and state-of-the-art minimally invasive training center housing the latest technologies in both laparoscopic and endoscopic surgery. A schedule of training sessions has been arranged for residents to facilitate their passing of the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) and the Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery (FES) exams. These sessions are proctored by board-certified minimally invasive surgery physicians and MIMIS’s dedicated staff. Montefiore Einstein has been designated as a testing site for both the FLS and the FES.