2025 FREIDA™ data
In 2025, FREIDA™ users tallied more than 180,000 views of surgery-general residency programs. In this list, we pare the 369 programs down to the 10 surgery general residency programs ranked at the top for user interest.
Rankings are based on identified medical student activity on FREIDA™, the AMA Residency & Fellowship Database®, from Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2025. FREIDA allows medical students to search for a residency or fellowship from more than 13,000 programs—all accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
Specialty description
General surgery is a diverse specialty that is both the foundation for many surgical subspecialties and a distinct field in and unto itself. A fully trained general surgeon possesses the knowledge and ability to intervene on a variety of surgical issues across the life span, from the child with pyloric stenosis, to the victim of a gunshot wound to the chest, to the elderly patient with a recently diagnosed melanoma of the leg.
Key characteristics of a sound general surgeon will include having broad understanding of anatomy and physiology paired with the technical skill to carry out appropriately selected procedures. This combination, while challenging to master, provides general surgeons with unparalleled opportunities to cure and palliate the ill, injured and suffering.
The 10-most viewed surgery-general programs
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Program
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Program
Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine Program
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Program
BronxCare Health System Program
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Rochester) Program
Harlem Hospital Center Program
Cleveland Clinic (Florida) Program
Johns Hopkins University Program
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Program
