Rotations
The Mount Carmel General Surgery Residency Program offers a comprehensive program that addresses the full spectrum of general surgery practice. Residents emerge from the program with competency in a broad range of surgical procedures, as well as significant hands-on experience with a variety of patient populations and both inpatient and outpatient surgical settings.
The Mount Carmel General Surgery Residency Program actively teaches the six competencies: medical knowledge, patient care, professionalism, practice-based learning and improvement, systems-based practice, intrapersonal and interpersonal communications and skills.
Department of Surgery: Clinical Assignments
2024 – 2025
PGY I (Categorical and Preliminary)
| General Surgery | 10 blocks |
| Trauma/SICU | 2 blocks |
| Elective | 1 block (preliminary) |
PGY II (Categorical)
| General Surgery | 7 blocks |
| Trauma/ICU | 2 blocks |
| Vascular | 1 block |
| Cardio-Thoracic Surgery | 1 block |
| Colorectal Surgery | 1 block |
| Outpatient Surgery Center (TSSC) | 1 block |
PGY III (Categorical)
| General Surgery | 7 blocks |
| Trauma/ICU | 2 blocks |
| Vascular | 1 block |
| Pediatric Surgery | 2 blocks |
| Transplant Surgery | 1 block |
PGY IV Categorical
| General Surgery | 7 blocks |
| Trauma/ICU | 1 block |
| Vascular | 1 block |
| Thoracic Surgery | 1 block |
| Colorectal Surgery | 1 block |
| Elective/Third World | 1 block |
| Chief Transition | 1 block |
PGY V
| Mount Carmel Grove City General Surgery Clinic | 3–4 blocks |
| Mount Carmel East General Surgery Clinic | 3–4 blocks |
| St. Ann’s General Surgery Clinic | 3–4 blocks |
| Float Chief General Surgery | 3–4 blocks |
Specialty Services
Colorectal Surgery
Residents work closely with five board certified colorectal surgeons. Extensive experience with open, laparoscopic, and robotic colon and rectal procedures is obtained along with performance of colonoscopies.
Trauma/Critical Care
Mount Carmel is a Level II Trauma Center with over 800 admissions annually. Residents gain valuable experience in the initial evaluation and management of trauma patients. This is a rapidly growing service in our surgery program.
Transplant
Third year residents rotate at The Ohio State University Transplant Service.
Vascular Surgery
Mount Carmel's program has historically offered a rich vascular experience to its general surgery residents. This tradition continues as current residents learn both open and endovascular surgery from the Mount Carmel vascular specialists.
Pediatric Surgery
Residents rotate at Columbus Nationwide Children's Hospital for two consecutive months as a third year.
Elective Missions Surgery Rotation
During the fourth year of training residents are given the opportunity to spend a month working in surgical missions to underserved areas.
Julie Corbett, MD ('23) with Brent Sherwin, MD ('20) Mission trip in February 2022. Dr. Sherwin is a member of the our surgery faculty who is currently working at Malamulo Adventist Hospital.
This rotation is approved by the ACGME as an international training site.
Leslie Addengast, MD (’21) with Ben Jarman, MD (’04) performing a thyroidectomy during a Dominican Republic missions trip in March 2020. Dr. Jarman is currently the surgery program director at Gundersen Health and president of the American Program Directors in Surgery. He has been dedicating time each year to serving in surgical missions dating back to his PGY 4 year at Mount Carmel.