Surgical and Medical Residency Programs Graduate Top Doctors

Waterbury Hospital has always considered training of physicians to be an important part of the mission of the hospital. Educational programs promote a culture of learning and innovation that ensures the most advanced care for our patients.

Waterbury Hospital’s surgical residency program is one of the few remaining independent surgical residency programs in the country. The program provides a full spectrum of surgical experiences for our trainees. Since the only training programs at Waterbury Hospital are in general surgery and medicine, our residents have access to general surgery, ENT, urology, plastics, GYN, neurosurgery and orthopedic cases. We also train medical students from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and PA students from Quinnipiac University. Our residents rotate at Yale New Haven Hospital, Hartford Hospital and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. Over 60 years old, the surgical residency program has graduated over 120 surgeons, many of whom have accepted prestigious fellowship appointments at prominent hospitals across the country.

 Additionally, Waterbury Hospital is also home to a robust medical residency program that is sponsored by the Yale School of Medicine. In fact, the hospital has the distinction of being the single, major community hospital training site for the Yale School of Medicine’s Primary Care and Internal Medicine Residency Program. Now in its 19^th year, Waterbury Hospital’s participation in this program has become such an integral part of how it delivers care in the hospital, community clinics, homeless shelters and private physician offices through clinical rotations, that it has come to define healthcare in Waterbury. Since 1989, over 200 doctors have trained in the program.