General Surgery Residency Program

South Brooklyn Health General Surgery Residency Program

Welcome

Welcome to the South Brooklyn Health General Surgery Residency Program. We are committed to developing skilled, confident, and compassionate surgeons in an environment that values individual growth, professional excellence, teamwork, and service to others.

Our residents receive a broad and rigorous general surgery experience at South Brooklyn Health, complemented by focused rotations at nationally recognized centers of surgical excellence, including the University of Maryland R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Northwell Health’s Cohen Children’s Medical Center. Together, these experiences provide comprehensive exposure to the full breadth of emergency and acute care general, trauma, surgical oncology, pediatric surgery, and other specialized disciplines.

South Brooklyn Health is the flagship acute care hospital of NYC Health + Hospitals in southern Brooklyn. As part of the largest municipal healthcare system in the United States, we are proud to provide high-quality, equitable care to every patient, regardless of background.

Our program offers the close mentorship and camaraderie of a smaller residency within a high-volume acute care hospital. Our residents benefit from meaningful operative responsibility, direct faculty engagement, and progressive autonomy throughout their training.

Above all, we strive to graduate surgeons who are technically excellent, clinically thoughtful, resilient, fulfilled by their work, who can and will make a meaningful difference in the lives of their patients.

Message from the Program Director

Welcome, and thank you for your interest in the South Brooklyn Health General Surgery Residency Program.

As Program Director, I am proud to introduce you to a residency program built on service, excellence, and a deep commitment to training the next generation of surgeons. South Brooklyn Health is a vital part of New York City’s public healthcare system and serves as a true safety-net hospital for one of the most culturally and ethnically diverse communities in Brooklyn. Our patients come from all walks of life, and the pathology we see reflects the complexity, challenge, and responsibility of caring for a broad and dynamic population.

At the center of our mission is a simple but powerful belief: excellence for all. We are committed to providing exceptional surgical care to every patient, regardless of socioeconomic status or background, and to training residents who will carry that same sense of purpose, compassion, and responsibility throughout their careers.

Our residents train in a modern and exciting surgical environment. With newly commissioned state-of-the-art operating rooms and advanced technology, we are able to offer outstanding operative exposure in minimally invasive and robotic surgery across general surgery and multiple subspecialties, including colorectal, endocrine, breast, and vascular surgery. We believe that modern surgical training should prepare residents not only for today’s practice, but for the future of surgery as well.

What makes this program especially meaningful to me is our faculty. Our educators bring decades of experience, technical expertise, and a true passion for teaching. Just as importantly, they are deeply invested in the growth of each resident. We take pride in giving our trainees individualized attention from day one through graduation, helping them develop not only operative skill, but also judgment, confidence, leadership, and professionalism.

Above all, our goal is to train surgeons who are compassionate, capable, and confident — surgeons who are technically excellent, grounded in service, and prepared to lead in any setting.

We are excited, motivated, and fully committed to helping shape the next generation of surgeons.

Mission and Vision

Mission

To educate, train and mentor physicians to become skilled, reliable and compassionate surgeons.  We committed to creating an environment which values their personal and professional development by fostering collaboration, collegiality, respect, and belonging.  We aim to expose our residents to the challenges of providing care to traditionally underserved communities by engaging them in every component of clinical care, research, and advocacy.

Vision

The General Surgery Program at South Brooklyn envisions a future in which surgical excellence and public service are inseparable.  We aim to produce technically strong surgeons who are also resilient and creative, thus enabling them to care for diverse and challenging communities with compassion, cultural humility, and clinical rigor. Through immersive training in a high-volume, public acute-care hospital, we seek to cultivate leaders in surgery who will advance health equity, strengthen the communities they serve, and uphold the enduring mission of NYC Health + Hospitals: exceptional care for every patient, without exception.