Director's Message
Welcome to the UConn Health Waterbury Hospital General Surgery Residency website.
Surgery is one of the most demanding and rewarding careers in medicine. If you have chosen this path, you already understand that the road ahead requires discipline, resilience, and an unrelenting commitment to your patients and your craft.
The General Surgery Residency at UConn Health Waterbury Hospital will prepare you for that road. Our teaching sites include Hartford Hospital, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, giving you broad clinical exposure across the full spectrum of surgical disease. Our faculty are practicing surgeons who hold residents to high standards because that is what the specialty demands.
This is a community based program, which means you will operate. You will be on the front lines of surgical decision making from early in your training, developing the clinical judgment and technical skill that define a competent, independent surgeon. Our goal is not to make residency comfortable. Our goal is to make you excellent.
The program is ACGME accredited and graduates two chief residents annually. Most pursue fellowship training. Every application is evaluated on merit using a structured composite scoring system.
We are proud of what this program produces. If you are looking for a residency where you will be pushed, held accountable, and trained to operate with confidence and independence, I encourage you to apply.
Peter Zdankiewic, MD
Program Director,
General Surgery UConn Health Waterbury Hospital