General Surgery Residency at Orlando

1. Patient Care
2. Medical Knowledge
3. Practice-Based Learning
4. Interpersonal & Communication Skills
5. Professionalism
6. Systems-Based Practice

The philosophy of patient care by the residency program and AdventHealth Orlando focuses on Whole Person Care and is emphasized in all of our patient interactions. Rotations in the five-year program are geared toward progressive learning and skill acquisition. Resident performance is evaluated through the ACGME educational Milestones as outlined by the RRC.

Residents will see patients in the office of the full-time core faculty at the Center for Specialized Surgery. Patient records are maintained in electronic medical record (EMR). This provides seamless integration of care and communication with the other doctors in the Medical Education Department. Additionally, records are accessible 24/7 from inside and outside the hospital.

The resident will become facile with the hospital medical record system, I-Extend, and EPIC. Electronic Medical Record systems have streamlined the patient care process, improved community-wide healthcare and strengthened the patient-provider relationship by making medical information available quickly.

We have a structured, longitudinal simulation curriculum encompassing advanced suturing, bedside procedures, and more advanced skills including laparoscopy and robotics, ensuring that residents are ready for FLS and FES and preparing residents to be robotic surgeons by the time they graduate our program. All residents undergo dedicated simulation workshops spanning basic skills for trauma, hemostasis, and laparoscopy as well as live animal and cadaveric laparoscopic and robotic workshops at our high-fidelity, American College of Surgeons accredited Nicholson Simulation Center. We have similar facilities on a smaller scale immediately available to residents on campus.

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What You'll Need

Medical students interested in applying for categorical residency training in general surgery should be familiar with the following policy regarding recruitment, eligibility and selection. Our goal is to recruit and train physicians committed to excellence in General Surgery, who will promote, practice, and respect the mission of AdventHealth Orlando in providing compassionate whole person care. Recruitment is through ERAS and our program participates in the NRMP selection process. We provide pertinent program summaries through AdventHealth Orlando's Graduate Medical Education website. AdventHealth Orlando GME offers clinical clerkships to medical students from affiliated medical schools and other accredited medical schools on a case-by-case basis. At this time, AdventHealth sponsors H1-B visas for its trainees and the cost is covered by the institution.

• Medical School
  1. LCME (Liaison Committee of Medical Education) and AOA graduates:
     • Eligible for Doctor of Medicine diploma without reservations
     • Dean's Letter
     • Letter from residency program director (if applicable)
     • Successfully passed USMLE I and USMLE II (United States Medical Licensing Examination) at first attempt.
       • Transcript directly from the FSMB (Federation of State Medical Boards)
     • Acceptable explanation of any break in education (if applicable)
     • Demonstrated written and spoken fluency in English language

     • Proof of Citizenship or resident alien status as required by AdventHealth Orlando Human Resources

  2. ERAS Application
     1. Completed application through ERAS (Electronic Residency Application Service), through the AAMC (American Association of Medical Colleges), and participation in the NRMP (National Resident Match Program) match.
        • Online application
        • Personal statement
        • CV
        • Transcript
        • Dean's letter
        • Three letters of recommendation by surgeons
        • USMLE scores, Part I and II (USMLE required)
        • Photograph
        • ERAS Application Deadline: November 1 (All applications must be received by November 1st. No new application will be considered after the deadline)

Sample Resident Agreement

Eligibility and Selection Policy

ABS Training Requirements

We’ll Take Care of You

AdventHealth offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package for trainees.

For more information about the benefits we offer, including salary, medical and dental insurance, and paid time off, please visit our GME benefits page.

• 2,247-bed acute-care medical facility, serves as a community hospital for Greater Orlando and as a major tertiary referral hospital for Central Florida and much of the Southeast, the Caribbean and Latin America.
• AdventHealth Orlando is a system of 10 hospitals in the Central Florida area which operate under one license. The hospitals included in the AdventHealth Orlando group are AH Altamonte, AH Apopka, AH Celebration Health, AH East Orlando, AH Kissimmee, Winter Park Memorial, AH Orlando, and Florida Children’s Hospital.
• AdventHealth Orlando is equipped with 52 medical ICU beds, 20 cardiac ICU beds, 28 cardiovascular surgery ICU beds, 8 dedicated ECMO beds, 20 multidisciplinary surgical ICU beds, 28 neuro/neurosurgical ICU beds.
• ECMO center - AdventHealth Orlando has earned “The ELSO Award for Excellence in Life Support” from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) and is now one of only 32 Designated Platinum Level Centers of Excellence in the world.
• Robust subspecialty exposure

ACUTE CARE/SICU/CRITICAL CARE

• Fahd Ali, MD
• Marcus Darrabie, MD
• Joshua Goldberg, MD
• Michael Gregg, MD

BREAST SURGERY

• Walter Hayne, MD
• Jeremy John, MD
• Devina McCray, MD

CARDIOTHORACIC

• Joseph Boyer, MD

CARDIAC – Faculty ICU:

• R. Eduardo Oliveira, MD
• Maria Carrillo, MD
• Mohammad Hmadeh, MD
• Hany Farag, MD
• Khaled Fernainy, MD
• Ala Haddadin, MD
• Sonja Dickens, MD
• Robyn Lagina, MD
• Jason Johnson, MD
• Marcus Darrabie, MD
• Martin Cearras, MD
• Yasser Samra, DO
• Okorie Okoire, MD
• Amay Parikh, MD

COLON AND RECTAL

• Matthew R. Albert, MD
• Teresa H. deBeche-Adams, MD
• Jeremy Drake, MD
• Dan Glante, DO
• Justin Kelly, MD
• George Nassif, DO
• Yaphet Tilahun MD
• Mark Soliman, MD
• Norbert Garcia Hernandez, MD
• Jonathan Licking, MD

ENDOCRINE

• Bruce Haughley, MD
• J. Scott Magnuson, MD
• Michael Seidman, MD

GASTROENTEROLOGY: GI

• Maryam R. Kashi, DO
• Ilan Aharoni, MD
• Irteza Inayat, MD
• Moin Kola, MD

PRIVATE GENERAL SURGERY

• Timothy Childers, MD
• Thomas K. Mahan, MD

GENERAL SURGERY (EAST ORLANDO)

• Jeffrey Chiu, MD
• Alexandros Coutsoumpos, MD
• Bernadette Profeta, MD

GENERAL SURGERY (WINTER PARK)

• Enrique Vega, MD
• Christopher Olukoga, MD
• Melissa Bagloo, MD

GENERAL SURGERY (APOPKA)

• Rhonda Harmon, MD
• John Jeffries, MD
• Jonah White, MD
• Steve McElveen, MD

PEDIATRIC SURGERY

• Christopher Anderson, MD
• Raleigh Thompson, MD
• Alexsander Bernshteyn, MD
• Lindsey Armstrong, MD

PLASTIC SURGERY

• Arthur Debaise, MD

SURGICAL ONCOLOGY

• Armando Rosales, MD
• Sebastian de la Fuente, MD

TRANSPLANT

• Michael Angelis, MD
• Lawrence “Thomas” Chin, MD
• Bobby N. Nibhadupuddy, MD
• Ryan W. Day, MD

TRAUMA/ ICU BURN

• Indermeet “Lenny” Bhullar, MD
• Michael Cheatham, MD
• Anthony Gielow, DO
• William Havron, MD
• Stephen Hersperger, MD
• Joseph Ibrahim, MD
• Matthew Lube, MD
• Howard Smith, MD

VASCULAR

• Manuel Perez-Izquierdo, MD
• Mark E. Ranson, MD
• David Varnagy, MD
• Alan R. Wladis, MD
• Robert Winter, MD
• Rachel Wilson, MD