General Surgery Residency Research Opportunities

As a General Surgery resident, you will have the opportunity for one to two years of research after PGY 3. 

Opportunities in this area include:

  • Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
  • Population Health Sciences
  • Comprehensive Cancer Center at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
  • Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering
  • Clinical and Translational Science Institute
  • Master’s of Science in Molecular Medicine and Translational Sciences 

Surgical Oncology Research

This program features: 

  • Cooperative group oncology trials 
  • Investigator-initiated trials 
  • Database-driven retrospective trials (HIPEC, liver, breast, esophagus, melanoma, pancreas)
  • Collaborative data-sharing studies 
  • Tissue procurement infrastructure 
  • Quality of life/outcome trials 

Wake Forest Research Institutes and Centers