Program Overview

University Program Information

The Department of Surgery at McGovern Medical School offers various residency and fellowship programs.

Residency Programs

• Colon and Rectal Surgery Residency
  • Includes rotations, faculty, academics, and alumni information
• General Surgery Residency
  • Includes surgery program, applicant resources, education and curriculum, resident life and wellness, and residency roster
  • Resident roster includes PGY-5, PGY-4, PGY-3, PGY-2, PGY-1, and residents on research sabbatical
• Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency
• Plastic Surgery Residency
  • Includes history of the division, plastic surgery faculty, applicant resources, salary and benefits, education and curriculum, current residents, past residents, medical students, and research
  • Education and curriculum includes case logs, resident clinic, and rotation schedule
• Urology Residency
  • Includes our program, potential applicants, selection process, how to apply, applicant resources, core faculty, residency roster, and alumni

Fellowship Programs

• Acute Care Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, & Trauma Fellowship Programs
  • Includes training paths, prospective fellows, current fellows
• Minimally Invasive Surgeons of Texas (MIST) Fellowship Consortium
• Advanced GI/MIS and Bariatric Surgery Fellowship Program
  • Includes highlights, rotations and fellowship faculty, case requirements and fellow volumes, research, academics
• Plastics & Burns Fellowship Programs
• Obesity & Metabolism Fellowship
• T32 Trauma Research Fellowship Program
  • Includes program goals, organizational structure, faculty mentors, current fellows, former fellows, how to apply, T32 publications
• Urology Fellowship Programs

Academics

Required Weekly Conferences

• Divisional Morbidity and Mortality Conference – Weekly (Wednesday AM)
• Grand Rounds, Department of Surgery – Weekly (Thursday 7-8AM)
• Morbidity and Mortality Conference, Department of Surgery (Thursday 8-9 AM)

Required Monthly and Semi-Monthly Conferences

• MIST Fellowship Consortium Journal Club and Morbidity and Mortality Conference (Second Wednesday Monthly, 6-9PM)
• Divisional Research Conference (Third Tuesday Monthly, WebEx, 5-6PM)
• The FELLOW project (Fellowship Educational Lectures & Learning Objectives Webinars) – American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (First Friday, 7AM EST, replayed @ 3PM EST)
• UT Health/Texas Hernia Center Journal Club (Monthly)
• Gastro-esophageal Reflux Disease Conference (1-2 times a month, Tuesday 7-8AM, WebEx)
• Multidisciplinary bariatric surgery meeting (Quarterly)
• MBSAQIP occurrences conference (Every 2-3 months)

Annual

• Surgical Disruptive Technology Summit (part of SAGES Surgical Innovation Weekend)

Surgery Divisions

• Acute Care Surgery
• Elective General Surgery
• General Surgery / LBJ
• Abdominal Organ Transplantation
• Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
• Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
• Urology

Hospitals

• Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital
• Memorial Hermann Hospital – TMC
• Memorial Hermann Children's Hospital
• M.D. Anderson Cancer Center