The General Surgery residents at Huntington Hospital receive an individualized learning experience and benefit from close interaction with our teaching faculty. Participation in the operating room begins at an early level, under direct supervision, which provides a rigorous exciting learning experience. Huntington Hospital performs more than 12,000 operations annually and with the absence of a fellowship program, residents perform the majority of all procedures on the various teaching services. Surgery residents are immersed in advanced technologies including intensive robotics and laparoscopic training, specialty and sub-specialty led conference schedules, and an American College of Surgeons accredited Surgical Skills Lab curriculum.
“Huntington Hospital provides a convivial and well resourced working environment that allows us to deliver optimal patient care. We are given the opportunities for early operative exposure and independent clinical decision making while on call. Residents are constantly immersed in advanced robotics and laparoscopic procedures providing for a very OR intensive residency experience.”
-Noah Swann, MD
General Surgery Chief Resident
“Huntington Hospital’s surgery residency training program offers the best of high-end academic surgery, multi-disciplinary care, and high volume clinical practice. I liken the training at Huntington to being at a tertiary care community facility – you get incredible exposure to complex surgical disease, bread and butter procedures, all in high volumes by both general and sub-specialty surgical practitioners.”
-Poornima Rao, MD
Surgical Oncology & General Surgery Faculty
Curriculum & Didactics
Rotation Schedules
ACS Surgical Skills Lab
Our Faculty
Our teaching faculty hold clinical faculty appointments at the USC Keck School of Medicine. They are actively involved and dedicated to the successful training of our future surgeons.
General Surgery Current Residents
Our General Surgery residents are integral members of Huntington Hospital’s OR staff, performing a majority of the procedures on the teaching service and helping shape the future of surgical medicine.
Contact Information
If you have questions or would like to learn more about the General Surgery Residency program at Huntington Hospital, please check out our FAQs or reach out to Program Manager, Jessica Reed.
Jessica Reed
Phone: (626) 397-5187 or email her here.