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General Surgery
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General
Surgery

ABOUT THIS SPECIALTY

 
GENERAL SURGERY AT A GLANCE
Overview of the Specialty of General Surgery

General Surgeons are trained to manage a broad spectrum of diseases and injuries almost any area of the body which requires surgery. These physicians are involved in diagnosis, preoperative, operative and postoperative care. They are usually responsible for the comprehensive management of trauma and critical patients. Although its scope is broad, general surgery usually involves the abdomen, breasts, peripheral vasculature, skin and neck. General surgeons today in the United States only rarely perform complex neurologic, orthopaedic, thoracic or urologic procedures.

Training Requirements for General Surgery

Training consists of a minimum of five years of postgraduate education in general surgery training in a ACGME-accredited general surgery residency training program (this training is reduced to four years for those pursuing some fellowships). There are 253 general surgery residency training programs accredited by the ACGME for 2005/2006 offering slightly over 1,000 categorical positions for general surgery residency training available to U.S. seniors.

Matching Program Information and Match Statistics for General Surgery

General surgery residency training programs participate in the NRMP. Match results through the NRMP and competitiveness information for general surgery residency training positions are summarized on the right.

Subspecialty/Fellowship Training for General Surgery

Subspecialty/fellowship training following completion of general surgery residency training program is available in general vascular surgery, pediatric surgery, hand surgery, critical care surgery and cardiothoracic surgery. Detailed information about the scope of these subspecialty training programs, number of positions offered and length of training is available in the GMED. Further information can be obtained from the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database Access page (FREIDA).

Career Information

FREIDA physcian workforce information for each specialty includes statistical information on the number of positions/programs for residency training, resident workhours, resident work environment and compensation, employment status upon completion of program and work environment for those entering practice in each specialty.

Access FREIDA
For summary statistics and physician workforce information, click on "Specialty Statistics."

Training
4-5 years of residency
Categorical positions available

These are minimum requirements. Some programs may have longer residencies.

Fellowships
SubspecialtyLength
Breast Surgery
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Colorectal Surgery
Critical Care Medicine
Hand Surgery
Minimally Invasive Surgery
Pediatric Surgery
Surgical Critical Care
Surgical Oncology
Transplant Surgery
Vascular Surgery
1 year
2-3 years
1 year
1-2 years
1 year
1 year
2 years
1 year
1-2 years
1-2 years
1-2 years

Lifestyle
Mean Salary$263,700
Median Salary$240,000
Average hours worked per week: 58.2
Source (if not listed above): Physician Socioeconomic Statistics. c. 2003 Edition, American Medical Association


US MATCH STATISTICS

Competitiveness(*)

2007 : Intermediate
2006 : High
2005 : High
2004 : High


Competitiveness is based on the percentage of U.S. seniors who match in each specialty.

2007
2006
2005
2004
# Categorical/ Advanced positions available for U.S. Seniors
1057
1047
1051
1004
% U.S. Seniors matched*
90
86
84
*81
# Unfilled Categorical/ Advanced Positions
2
1
7
2
#Unmatched U.S. seniors
84
129
139
201

; Over 80% of U.S. seniors ranking general surgery programs ranked ONLY this specialty. From the published National Residency Matching Program statistics, and additional data provided by the NRMP

From the National Resident Matching Program data.

All residency matching programs do not currently provide their match results data in a uniform format. The statistics provided at this web site have been derived from currently available data provided by these residency matching programs, approximated to facilitate comparison across all specialties for US senior medical students . This is intended to provide an overview of the matching process , on a specialty-specific basis for US senior medical students, and should be viewed in this context.

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