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Surgery Residency

Program Overview

Inova Fairfax Hospital is the largest non-profit hospital in Virginia. The Washington Post rated us the number one hospital in the DC area last year, and US news and world report ranks us in the top 100 hospitals in the country. The hospital trains 15 INOVA categorical surgery residents (3 per class) and has visiting residents from Howard University, George Washington University and Bethesda National Naval Medical Center Hospitals.

Our surgical volume is large. We perform over 35,000 cases a year including almost 100 laparoscopic cholecystectomies, 200 thyroid procedures, over 2,000 cardiac surgical procedures, 400 Bariatric procedures and more than 500 colon procedures. We also saw 3,300 trauma patients. These numbers give us the capability to educate residents in all aspects of surgery despite a decrease in duty hours. We have hired a cadre of nurse practitioners, physician assistants and house surgeons to maximize the use of duty hours.

Our faculty enjoys teaching. Many of our private surgeons participate in our mentoring program, which brings residents to the private setting and integrates them into an office practice. Our residents get to participate as with all the advantages of continual care in a private practice.

Our academic credentials continue to grow; beginning in 2005 we became a satellite campus of the VCU/MCV medical school and have our own class of third- and fourth-year medical students. Currently one Bariatric fellow is training at Inova. Last year, out faculty contributed to numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals as well as numerous chapters in popular textbooks. A new research method program started this year to help our residents prepare papers for national presentations. Our advanced laparoscopy lab is an excellent facility to practice new technologies with supervision of our laparoscopic faculty. Our graduates have all obtained fellowships at NEMC, Temple, Cleveland clinic and Wayne State.

We are constantly improving. This year saw the promulgation of new regulations to improve the education experience of the residency. As a new program, we have used these as an opportunity to design a program that fits easily into the 80-hour week, the evaluation of six care competencies and the computer age. Generally, our on-call schedule is based on an every fourth night principle without resorting to night float, while our sub-specialties have excellent cross-coverage combining residents rotating in from the surrounding university program supplemented with local surgery from outside the program.

We have a truly heterogeneous faculty. Our staff reflects the varied international population of Northern Virginia through the numerous multilingual subspecialties of both men and women surgeons.

We realize you have debts. With the support of the hospital, we want debt reduction as part of your employment package. We recognize the changes in residents' needs and expectations regarding lifestyle and benefits. We also know some of you will begin families during your training, and therefore the hospital supplies day care on campus. We understand that living 12 miles from Washington, DC, is expensive and want to give you affordable housing. Most of all, we want to train an outstanding group of young surgeons who will be able to leave here and enter any fellowship or general surgical practice with a great education and confidence that there are no deficiencies in their training.