Recruitment for Year | 2025 - 2026

The General Surgery Residency Program at the Medial College of Georgia at Augusta University offers five categorical positions each academic year. Applications are accepted only through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS). Additional information regarding the program can be accessed via the American Medical Association's FREIDA online.

For the 2025-2026 interview season, applications will be accepted ONLY through ERAS and all interviews will be conducted virtually.  We will have a virtual informal social gathering with only the residents the night before the interviews.

The deadline for receipt of applications is November 1, 2024.  Once all applications have been received, the Selection Committee will select applicants to interview, to be placed on a waitlist or not to be interviewed.  Our program uses the Thalamus scheduling system to send out invites, to schedule interviews and all other correspondence.  

Requirements:

  • Three letters of recommendation from faculty/colleagues are required.
  • Graduates of non-LCME accredited medical schools must provide their ECFMG status report
  • Must have graduated from a medical school within the past 3 years
  • Must have a valid ECFMG certificate or expect certification prior to the NRMP Rank list submission deadline
  • Our program only sponsor J-1 visas

Score Requirements: 

  • USMLE Step 1 Pass
  • USMLE Step 2 Pass passing score (however, a higher score is more competitive) and required before the NRMP Rank list submission deadline
  • COMLEX Level 1, Level 2 (CE) and level 2 (PE) Pass
  • Applicants who have signaled our program and meet our selection criteria based on a holistic review, will be preferentially considered for interviews
  • Applicants that did not signal our program will also be offered interviews

 

For more information or questions, contact the Program Coordinator, Barbara Shine, in the General Surgery Residency Program Office at 706-721-2503 or by email bshine@augusta.edu.


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Why did you choose MCG?

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Ayana Worthey, MD

 MCG chose me ! I came to MCG as a prelim resident, but the faculty looked at my global potential as a physician and a surgeon and that’s how I found my surgical home! 

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Hossam Alslaim, MBBS

 The comradery…I don’t know how to pinpoint it. That 3am delivery dinner an attending brings on a busy trauma call…

“Do you want coffee” text from a resident on a less busy service…

A UFC screening at an interns house, A pool party every other Saturday at a section chiefs place, these things can’t be qualified or quantified in a program survey or a well being evaluation, but for me sums up what’s best about this place. 

 

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