General Surgery Residency
MAHEC (Mountain Area Health Education Center) was established in 1974 and serves a 16-county region in Western North Carolina. MAHEC is the largest Area Health Education Center in North Carolina and evolved to address national and state concerns with the supply, retention, and quality of healthcare professionals. MAHEC’s approach to caring for patients is based on an advanced care team model. MAHEC's Biltmore campus houses residency training programs in family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, general surgery, pharmacy, and dentistry.
MAHEC's Biltmore campus is also home to UNC Health Sciences at MAHEC, an academic health center in partnership with UNC-Chapel Hill that includes programs from the UNC School of Medicine, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, and UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
Mission Hospital is licensed for 853 beds. The emergency department sees over 100,000 patient visits per year, the level I trauma center admits over 5,000 patients per year, and the helicopter transports more than 1,000 patients per year. Mission Hospital surgery services includes critical-care-certified acute care surgeons, subspecialty surgeons, pediatric surgeons, and vascular surgeons that provide the entire spectrum of patient care and surgical procedures. At more than 35,000 surgical procedures each year, Mission Hospital is one of the busiest surgical hospital in North Carolina.
The Charles George VA Medical Center is a Joint Commission-accredited, tertiary referral, 1C facility that provides a full spectrum of health services to Veterans residing in a 23-county area of Western North Carolina. The medical center has 119 authorized acute care beds (including a 16-bed inpatient psychiatric unit), two state-of-the-art ICUs, 120 authorized community living center (CLC) beds, and 18 beds authorized for a substance use residential rehabilitation treatment program. The medical center also operates community-based outpatient clinics (CBOCs) in Franklin, Rutherford County, and Hickory, NC. The VA Medical Center currently has the resident spots available and the clinical volume to support four full-time surgical residents from our MAHEC program. Regarding colorectal cases, the VA Medical Center will provide the resident a valuable learning opportunity with four general surgeons performing approximately 100 colectomy cases per year.
Haywood Regional Medical Center is in Haywood County and licensed for 154 beds. Continuing a long-standing tradition of excellence, Haywood Regional Medical Center offers a comprehensive array of services, including orthopedics, spine services, cardiology, general surgery, women's care, emergency medicine, behavioral health, and includes 11 multi-specialty physician clinics. The campus in Clyde, NC, is also home to the 54,000 square foot Haywood Regional Health and Fitness Center and the 44,000 square foot Outpatient Care Center (including the outpatient surgery center, laboratory, imaging center, and physician practices). As part of Duke LifePoint Healthcare, Haywood Regional Medical Center is supported by Duke University Health System’s world-renowned leadership in clinical excellence and quality care as well as LifePoint Health’s extensive resources, knowledge, and experience in operating community hospitals. Residents will gain bread-and-butter general surgery experience in a rural community hospital setting.
The University of North Carolina Hospitals System is equipped with more than 40 operating rooms at four different locations to provide both inpatient and outpatient surgical care. Our residents rotate within UNC for 10 weeks to gain experience in Abdominal Transplant and Cardiothoracic Surgery. Accommodations are provided.
