The Department of Surgery at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore recently received Residency Review Committee (RRC) approval for a three-year, accredited surgical residency program. Sinai Hospital’s Department of Surgery will immediately begin recruiting qualified applicants in July 2007 for admission.

“Sinai Hospital is excited to offer medical students the opportunity to gain surgical experience in an intimate and intensive learning environment,” said Neil Meltzer, president and COO of Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. “We are pleased to be able to expand our extensive graduate medical education program at Sinai to include surgery, and train the next generation of intelligent, well-rounded, compassionate and talented surgeons.”

Participants in the residency program will be exposed to a variety of areas, including surgical research, the business of medicine, public health, health care administration and finance, trauma surgery and critical care fellowships.

Additionally, Sinai has formed strong academic affiliations to enhance the comprehensive surgical training of its residents. Participants in Sinai’s surgical residency program will take part in several rotations including a transplant surgery rotation, a recontructive surgery rotation at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, a trauma rotation at the R A Cowley Shock Trauma Center and an intensive pediatric surgery rotation at Alfred I. duPont Children’s Hospital in Delaware.

“A surgical residency program is critical to a teaching institution, such as Sinai Hospital,” said Adrian Barbul, MD, chair of the Department of Surgery. “We are thrilled once again to be able to train the area’s future surgeons.”

Sinai Hospital of Baltimore is a member of LifeBridge Health, a regional health organization, which includes Northwest Hospital Center, Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital, Jewish Convalescent & Nursing Home, and related subsidiaries and affiliates.

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