Surgery Residency at UMass Chan-Baystate

A Tradition of Academic Excellence

At the Forefront of Surgical Residency Education

The Surgery Department at Baystate Medical Center, the regional campus of the UMass Chan Medical School, is proud to have a role in charting the future course of surgical education in the United States. Baystate's tradition of academic excellence, and our faculty's many years of experience, is reflected in leadership on national accreditation, policy, and review boards.

Broad-Based Clinical Experience on a Single Campus

• Level I trauma center experience
• 1,000+ operative cases per resident
• Night Float call system
• American College of Surgeons-accredited Comprehensive Level I Education Institute since 2007
• Bench and clinical research opportunities

Virtually every surgical subspecialty is represented on our faculty, comprised of more than 50 Board Certified or Board Eligible surgeons.

Residents can gain experience in:

About Our Program

• 7 categorical residents (with 1-2 in research lab) each year
• > 80% of graduates accepted into fellowships each year

State-of-the-Art Facilities

Baystate Simulation Center and Goldberg Surgical Skills Lab presents a diverse range of clinical scenarios in the form of interactive simulations that emphasize team training and crisis management. Physical and virtual reality simulations provide a broad experience in surgical skills development.

• Minimally invasive and robotic surgery training
• Full-time skills training coach
• Onsite training and testing for Fundamentals of Laproscopic Surgery (FLS) and Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery (FES) certifications

The Surgery Residency at UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate is ACGME-accredited.

Program-at-a-Glance

The UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate Surgery Residency program recently celebrated its 75th continuous year of general surgery graduate medical training. Over the time course of its existence, our program has evolved considerably, with both growth in the number of yearly graduates and continuous improvement of the training experience.

In its current form, the program provides a complete educational experience for new surgeons in an environment characterized by innovation, diversity, and abundant opportunities to excel. The operative experience is a balanced one, offering a large volume of cases, outstanding intraoperative faculty teaching, and graded opportunity for autonomy. Other educational highlights include weekly curricular sessions during protected educational time and surgical simulation training on a weekly basis encompassing a full range of skills in an American College of Surgeons Accredited Level I Education Institute. All mandated FLS and FES testing is accomplished on-site in our accredited test center which is a resource for other residencies in our geographic region. Educational development is facilitated by a large complement of advanced practice providers supporting the residency. Each year, 2-3 residents opt to pursue fulltime basic science and clinical research between the 2nd and 3rd training years either at Baystate or at outside institutions.

Our focus on educational quality is furthered by dedicated and distinguished teaching faculty members, many of whom have achieved regional and national recognition as leaders in academic, accreditation and policy organizations. It has been our mission to launch highly successful careers for our graduates, spanning the gamut of additional training and practice (academic, non-academic, military) positions. The success of this mission is apparent in the fellowship matches and career accomplishments of our graduates.