UPMC Mercy General Surgery Residency Program
The Department of General Surgery’s goal is to provide an outstanding educational experience for our surgical residents. The variety of cases also is excellent.
Since 1938, the General Surgery Residency Program has long been known for providing a hospitable and nurturing environment, and camaraderie between the residents and attending staff. Residents in our program must work well with each other and are expected to contribute at conferences. Surgical volume has always been excellent, with our chief residents’ case volume regularly exceeding 90 percent na
24/06/2024
And with that, the 2024 season comes to an end. Goodbye chiefs we will miss you! Good luck and congrats! 🥳
05/06/2024
Photo day 📸🩺
23/05/2024
The pgy3 class all dressed up to celebrate getting married! 👰🏼💐🎉
26/04/2024
Team trauma resting while they can!
Hard at work?
26/03/2024
Student and Resident deals for storage and/or moves.
We are so excited to announce that we are working with Don Farr to provide you with student moving and summer storage! Learn more about what Don Farr has to offer by scanning the QR Code or going to the link in our bio.
15/03/2024
The UPMC Mercy General Surgery Residency Program, would like to introduce our newest interns! This group will joining the team in late June 2024! CONGRATS to all and Welcome to the team!
11/12/2023
Annual holiday party! 🎅🏼🎉
For those Mercy Alumni attending the ACS meeting, the Mercy Alumni Reunion dinner is tonight at 5:30p at SRV. Please rsvp to Dr. Stahlfeld or through Facebook.
29/09/2023
Our sim lab just got an ✨ upgrade ✨ the Endo Mentor Suite is here! Surgical Science
21/07/2023
Team thoracic takes on Picklesburgh! 🥒
01/05/2023
😷 off!
15/01/2023
Coffee is an important food group ☕️🤌🏼
21/12/2022
Last weekend’s holiday party! 🎉🎄🎅🏼
19/12/2022
Check out our new/updated webpage for the latest residency info:
UPMC Mercy General Surgery | Department of Surgery | University of Pittsburgh Program Overview The General Surgery Residency Program at UPMC Mercy offers residents a 5-year hybrid model of surgical education. As a core residency program of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Surgery, our residents are trained by world-class faculty and benefit from robust academic surg...
06/12/2022
The city of bridges (and bourbon)
28/10/2022
Friday morning 🤖bromance between chief and alumnus ... & the rest of the Passavant crew
12/10/2022
Women Operating Wednesday! 🤩
For those Mercy Alumni attending the Clinical College 2022 Conf. this month and would like to attend the Mercy Alumni Reunion dinner on Monday October 17th please reach out to the program as soon as possible.
30/09/2022
Last day for this crew at Passavant!
14/09/2022
Chief resident s/p fellowship match. Discharge to burn/critical care fellowship next year! Congrats!! 🎉
08/09/2022
Team lunch with some views & the gen surg crew 😎
24/08/2022
Scenes from the OR
17/08/2022
Highlights from last week's team bonding! 🛶☀️
10/08/2022
Birria 🌮 or bust. 2nd years at family dinner!
03/08/2022
Wrapping up our chief class with Klil Babin!
Hometown: Glen Rock, NJ 🥯
Future plans: general surgery practice
Favorite Mercy memory: chief class hang outs
Favorite desserts: s’mores 🔥
27/07/2022
This week's chief spotlight is Peter Zak!
Hometown: Boston 🧦
Future plans: plastic surgery at 📍
Favorite Mercy memory: my first chief case
Favorite dessert: brownies
20/07/2022
Next chief up is Karalyn Hillebrecht!
Hometown: Pittsburgh
Future plans: surgical critical care 🩺💉
Favorite Mercy memory: operating with my co-chiefs 👩🏻⚕️👨🏻⚕️
Favorite dessert: a hot fudge sundae
13/07/2022
Chief spotlight!
First up, we have Jon Nakata!
Hometown: LA
Future plans: thoracic surgery 🫁
Favorite Mercy memory: taking class photos with the chiefs
Favorite dessert: a classic scoop of vanilla in a waffle cone 🍦