Holiday hours

With the exception of Inova hospitals, Inova Emergency Care and Inova-GoHealth Urgent Care, all Inova outpatient offices will be closed for the Labor Day holiday – Monday, September 1.

Intern orientation: 

This begins roughly two weeks before your official start date (July 1) and includes: 

  • ATLS, EPIC training, hospital orientation, and communication workshops.
  • Intern Bootcamp: 2-day experience along with neurosurgery, ob/gyn, and podiatry residents that allows practice with common call scenarios, OR fire safety, positioning and instrumentation, and other necessities to hit the ground running when they start.  

Weekly education: 

Our program includes 5 hours of dedicated protected time for education each Wednesday without pages/work phones and includes: 

  • Morbidity and Mortality conference, Grand Rounds, and education conference.
  • Our education chiefs design and implement the educational conference. It includes attending lectures, ABSITE preparation, surgical skill labs, cadaver labs, and other simulation training. Almost all of the protected time education sessions are led by program faculty. 

Simulation center:

Residents have 24/7 access to the Advanced Surgery and Technology Education Center (ASTEC), a 7,000-square-foot simulation center with two full interactive operating rooms and a full range of laparoscopic box, virtual reality, endoscopic, and DaVinci robotic trainers. 

Robotics:

  • Structured basic and advanced training curriculums.
  • Annual “Robot Olympics” competition among resident teams.

Other academic resources and opportunities:

  • SCORE and TrueLearn access are provided to residents free of charge.
  • Early exposure to Oral Board prep and regional mock orals for PGY 4–5.
  • Journal clubs every 1–3 months, hosted at restaurants or faculty homes. 
     

Explore and experience

Research opportunities


Residents interested in scholarly activity will find ample research and development opportunities. Research is highly supported and feasible during training. 

  • Our librarians offer expert literature search and article delivery.
  • The Surgery Service Line supports two full time statistician/epidemiologists to assist residents and faculty with their scholarly activities. Our research team can support project design, protocol development, IRB submission, statistical analysis, manuscript and presentation support, grant writing and submission, and general mentorship.
  • Number of resident publications 2023-2024: 13
  • Number of resident regional/national presentations 2023-2024: 21

For those interested in dedicated research time, we offer the opportunity for optional research years after PGY-2 or PGY-3. Several residents have completed research fellowships at the NIH, Johns Hopkins University, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and many other institutions. 

  • Fully funded institutional research fellowships currently include Thoracic Surgery and Surgical Education/Simulation with plans to increase those opportunities.