The continued growth of Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia, combined with the statewide reputation, resources, and academic strength of UF Health, creates significant opportunities for the Chair to expand surgical services, strengthen centers of excellence, develop innovative models of care, advance surgical research, enhance graduate medical education, and elevate the department’s regional and national reputation. It sponsors a five-year, ACGME-accredited General Surgery Residency Program that provides broad operative and clinical experiences, including trauma, emergency general surgery, surgical critical care, vascular surgery, surgical oncology, colorectal surgery, breast surgery, minimally invasive surgery, pediatric surgery, and plastic surgery.