Objective: Medical students actively seek global health opportunities. Surgical residents also show great enthusiasm for international missions, rotations and global surgery. Unfortunately, only 18% to 34% of all surgery residency programs offer such international opportunities. We surveyed fourth year medical students applying for surgery residency to determine if international surgery opportunities offered by a program would influence their match rank list.
Design: A 20 question survey was given to interviewees at our surgery residency program. Survey was optional and anonymous. We queried prior volunteerism, interest in global surgery and importance of international opportunities offered during residency.
Setting: Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack New Jersey PARTICIPANTS: All candidates interviewing for general surgery residency at Hackensack University Medical Center from October 2019 to January 2020.
Results: A total of 97 fourth year medical students interviewed, with a 66% response rate to the survey. Mean age was 27 years. 92% of students had volunteered during college and/or medical school. 41% of students had volunteered internationally. Majority of students were interested in a surgery residency program offering international opportunity. 78% of students planned to volunteer internationally after residency, and two-thirds planned to include global surgery in future career. Half of the students reported they would rank a residency program higher if it offered an international opportunity. Students who were immigrants were significantly more likely to rank a program higher in the match if an international opportunity was offered, compared to students born in the US (p < 0.05).
Conclusions: There is great interest in global surgery and international volunteer opportunities amongst fourth year medical students who apply for surgery residency. The majority of applicants have prior volunteer experience either locally or abroad. Majority of students plan to volunteer internationally after residency and are interested in academic global surgery careers. Students will rank surgery residency programs that offer international opportunities higher in the match.
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