Overview

Cape Fear Valley Health’s (CFVH) General Surgery PA Residency Program is dedicated to providing quality, compassionate, and personalized care to the residents of Fayetteville and surrounding communities. Our community is home to a medically underserved patient population, and our program seeks to improve access to care for our patients while training the General Surgery PA/APP’s  of tomorrow. We are committed to educating and training diverse and culturally competent surgical physician assistant who are outstanding clinicians and will be an asset to whatever community in which they choose to practice. It is our hope that program graduates will choose to practice in medically underserved communities continuing the community outreach legacy of our program."

The General Surgery PA Residency Program is structured to provide PASR residents with evidenced-based fundamental knowledge and principles requisite to becoming outstanding surgical PA/APPs. We combine a broad didactic curriculum and progressive clinical experiences to ensure PASR residents are prepared for clinical practice. Throughout the 12 month program, PA residents have the opportunity to train in such areas as general surgical, trauma/critical care, vascular, thoracic, urology, emergency medicine, and orthopedics. Our faculty come from diverse backgrounds with interests in a variety of general surgery areas that help our PASR residents grow into competent, well-rounded surgical PAs/APPs.

PASR Year 1:

  • Demonstrate competence in the care of surgical patients on the ward including preoperative evaluation, writing preoperative and postoperative orders, and postoperative care.
  • Demonstrate competence in the basic pathophysiology of surgical disease.
  • Achieve ACLS and ATLS certification.
  • Demonstrate competence in basic procedures: start IV, placement of central lines, PA catheters, arterial lines.
  • Demonstrate surgical competence in: basic techniques, sterile technique, surgeon in simple procedures, excision subcutaneous lesions, breast biopsies.
  • Communicate as a professional with patients, hospital staff, students, fellow PARSs and surgical residents and attending staff.