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Program Contacts
Program Contacts
Britney Corey, MD, MACM
Program Director
205-996-5193
Olivia Ricks, MBA
Education Administrator
205-934-9600
Kim Vandegriff
Program Coordinator
205-934-9600
Our Mission
Our Mission
The mission of the UAB General Surgery Residency Program is to train diverse 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.
The General Surgery Residency Program at UAB provides an outstanding clinical experience with many unique opportunities including research participation, extensive robotic surgery training, international training opportunities and more.
Training takes place across five facilities: University Hospital, The Kirklin Clinic, the Birmingham Veterans Administration Medical Center, Children’s Hospital of Alabama and UAB Highlands Hospital. All of these facilities are conveniently located in downtown Birmingham as part of the UAB Medical Center District.
To Set up Rotation:
To Set up Rotation:
Please use the VSLO portal to initiate a visiting clerkship request at UAB. https://www.uab.edu/medicine/surgery/education/medical-students. For any questions, please contact Dr. Bob Dabal, 4th year clerkship director, via email at rdabal@uabmc.edu or use one of the program contacts listed
Experience, Culture & Pathways
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.
Through a coalition with the Defense Health Agency, we will accept and train one of DHA residents each year. This resident will account for one of the eight General Surgery residency spots.
The UAB General Surgery Residency program has a unique connection with the military. We have many faculty members that are either veterans or active duty military. UAB's Trauma Center is an ideal environment to utilize the experience of former combat surgeons, but also to train current Air Force surgeons and ensure their trauma skills stay sharp when they are in-between deployments. Hence the development of an innovative military-civilian partnership with the Air Force Special Operations Command: the Special Operations Surgical Team (SOST), which has been based out of UAB since 2010. The SOST surgeons also serve as UAB faculty.
We hope you will consider training at the UAB General Surgery Residency Program. We are hosting a military information session on August 8, 2024, where applicants can meet with some of UAB Surgery's military faculty and residents. All application materials should be received by August 25, 2024. Selected applicants will be able to interview for the position on either September 6, 2024, or September 20, 2024. Recruitment events will be completed virtually.
To apply, please submit your CV, Personal Statement, photo, and an unofficial transcript of your USMLE/COMLEX scores to generalsurgery@uabmc.edu by August 25, 2024.
Interview offers for military applicants will be sent by August 30, 2024.
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