Temple is one of the nation’s most exciting places to work. Our surgical volume continues to grow yearly, providing residents with an outstanding breadth and depth of experience in the primary and secondary areas of general surgery. New technology has been added with an emphasis on minimally invasive procedures and robotic surgery.

Educationally, we have strengthened our formal didactic program by both consolidating the mandatory teaching conferences on Wednesday morning, and freeing our residents from clinical responsibilities during this time. We take the 80-hour workweek seriously, and have been in compliance with this important ACGME since its inception. We have also developed and refined a surgical-skills curriculum that is delivered every Wednesday afternoon to four to six residents in Temple’s William Maul Measey Institute for Clinical Simulation and Patient Safety. Residents are free of clinical responsibility for these three hours and receive personalized hands-on level-appropriate instruction from a faculty member.

Academically, we have improved the elective research experience available to our junior residents. We are committed to providing high-quality research training for one or two years to any resident who desires it (this is not mandatory). We anticipate that at any given time we will have between two and four residents in the laboratory for a one- or two-year elective research experience.