Laura Purcell, MD, General Surgery resident was only one of three students selected as OIA health Scholars.

Nashville: For the second consecutive year, the UNC team won the Resident Jeopardy competition at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Surgical Congress.

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) has awarded UNC medical student Eric Jernigan a Looking to the Future scholarship to attend the STS annual meeting, to be held in Houston Jan. 21-25, 2017. Jernigan is finishing a research elective in … Continued

Jared Gallaher, MD won the 2016 Region IV COT (American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma) Resident Paper Competition. The Title of this paper is “The Independent Effect of a New Surgical Residency Program on Trauma Mortality at a Sub-Saharan Africa Tertiary Center.

On May 5, the Department of Surgery hosted its first Resident Research Day, which featured poster and oral presentations by more than 50 residents and medical students. In addition to the poster presentations, which took place in the lobby of … Continued

Heather Logghe, MD, a resident in surgery at UNC Hospitals, had been following media coverage about #iLookLikeAnEngineer — a hashtag created by software engineer Isis Anchalee in response to negative feedback she received after being featured in an ad for … Continued

Clayton Commander and Teddy Puzio were awarded Kaiser-Permanente Excellence in Teaching Awards. This award was created by the Class of 2000 to recognize those residents and interns who contribute in an exemplary way to the education of medical students with … Continued