NU SoM’s General Surgery Residency is a five-year program designed to train doctors of medicine in general surgery by focusing the program on basic and clinical research that enhances patient care expertise and surgical practice.
The General Surgery residency complies with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)’s six core competencies in patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning and improvement, interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism, and systems-based practice. The School of Medicine designed this program to train graduates in the advanced competencies of certified surgical specialists.
The primary objective of the NU SoM General Surgery Residency Training Program is to produce a polyvalent general surgeon well versed in all aspects of general surgery, with a good grounding in basic and clinical research. Our graduates will be able to practice with confidence in either the community hospital or as an academic in a university teaching hospital.
The clinical assignments will be carefully structured to ensure that graded levels of responsibility, continuity in patient care, a balance between education and service, and progressive clinical experiences are achieved for each resident.
The 5-year curriculum provides cognitive, psychomotor, and affective objectives for general surgery training and offers residents opportunities to acquire a broad understanding of general surgical principles and foster appropriate technical and motor skills.
Students completing the program will complete at least one month in the following areas:
• General Surgery
• Intensive Care
• Anesthesiology
• Outpatient Clinic
• Pediatric Surgery
• Surgical Oncology
• Thoracic Surgery
• Transplant Surgery
• Trauma Surgery
• Vascular Surgery
• Upper GI Surgery
• Colorectal Surgery
• Endocrine/Breast
• Endoscopy
• Basic Gynecology
• Urology
Campus: Astana, Kazakhstan, NU SoM building, hospitals
Language: English, Kazakh, Russian
Delivery mode: Full time
Duration: 5 years
Residency graduates continue working as physicians.
