General Surgery Residency

Training Sites

Atrium Health Navicent

Atrium Health Navicent is the leading provider of healthcare in central and south Georgia and is committed to its mission of elevating health and well-being through compassionate care. Atrium Health Navicent is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the third-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Navicent provides high-quality, personalized care in 53 specialties at more than 50 facilities throughout the region. As part of the largest, integrated, nonprofit health system in the Southeast, it is also able to tap into some of the nation's leading medical experts and specialists with Atrium Health, allowing it to provide the best care close to home - including advanced innovations in virtual medicine and care. Throughout its 125-year history in the community, Atrium Health Navicent has remained dedicated to enhancing health and wellness for individuals throughout the region through nationally recognized quality care, community health initiatives and collaborative partnerships. It is also one of the leading teaching hospitals in the region, helping to ensure viability for rural health care for the next generation. For more information, please visit www.NavicentHealth.org.

Atrium Health Navicent will continue its role as a teaching hospital maintaining its partnerships with the Mercer University School of Medicine, Middle Georgia State University, Wesleyan College, Central Georgia Technical College, and Georgia College and State University.

Critical Care Experience

Ample opportunity for surgical residents to manage patients who may or may not require surgical intervention (pancreatitis, bleeding varices, septic shock, etc.) is provided. Four members of the surgical full-time faculty Dr. Ashley Jones, Dr. Dennis W. Ashley, Dr. Amy Christie, Dr. Benjamin Christie, and Dr. Eric Long are board certified in critical care and serve on the hospital committee that governs the critical care units. In concert with critical care specialists from the internal medicine and anesthesia faculties, daily rounds are conducted in the modern, well-equipped 87 bed intensive care units. Surgical residents care for patients admitted to these units as well as patients under the care of attending general and specialty surgeons. Additionally, three intensivists manage a six bed pediatric intensive care unit where patients are cared for by surgical residents under their direction. There is also a 35 bed neonatal intensive care unit.

Transplant Surgery Experience

Experience in transplant surgery is obtained through a one month rotation at the PGY-3 level at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. The residents participate in 10-12 renal transplants and 2-3 liver transplants.

Rural Surgery Rotation

An important addition to the medical student and residency curricula started in rural surgery. PGY2 residents will have the option to participate in a one-month rotation in Cordele, GA. Residents will work at Crisp Regional and Taylor Regional Hospitals.