UAB’s General Surgery Residency Program provides residents with clinical experience at a high-volume, level-one hospital. Resident training is enhanced with a variety of unique opportunities to develop as a surgeon and an academic physician, including research participation, extensive robotic surgery training, international training opportunities, and more. We are passionate about training the next generation of academic surgeons.

Training takes place across five facilities in downtown Birmingham as part of the UAB Medical Center District: University Hospital, The Kirklin Clinic, the Birmingham Veterans Administration Medical Center, Children’s Hospital of Alabama and UAB Highlands Hospital.

Experience, Culture & Pathways

UAB Hospital is the third-largest public hospital in the U.S. with 1,157 licensed beds. More than 40,000 operative procedures are performed annually at UAB, providing trainees with abundant opportunities. On average, our residents perform 1,390 procedures during their residency. As the state’s only Level 1 Trauma Center, UAB provides training opportunities in a wide variety of complex cases.

“The mission of the UAB General Surgery Residency Program is to train residents to pursue individualized paths towards the common goal of clinical excellence and leadership in surgery in order to provide compassionate, high quality care and improve the practice of medicine.”