Great community program heard a lot of good recommendations about it.
And one of the things that drew me to the program was the ability to have an
academic feel and academic connections with Henry Ford Hospital at the main
hospital downtown,
but still get the community feel and the family feel of a bread and
butter general surgery program.
So we kind of get the best of both worlds with the community feel,
community hospital, general surgery, as well as having the ability
to have the benefits of an academic center.
I think we have.
Excellent bread and butter general surgery cases.
The residents are like one big family.
We have a great relationship with our attendings. What do you think?
I second that I think we have a great relationship with our attendings.
They're always willing to teach us, get us involved in the OR.
Help us with research or any post-graduate opportunities and
are always just somebody that you can text, call and, and be a part of your,
your mentorship at this program. Yeah. So one of.
My favorite aspects of the program is the culture and environment.
I would describe it as one in which you're held to high expectations by your
attendings and your colleagues. But at the same time,
it's a very like friendly culture in which it's not
malignant. But at the same time you're held to a high expectation. So it really,
it strikes the ideal balance,
for an environment in which like you're really enabled to grow.
So as long as you come here and you work hard I think that, you know,
this program will produces like outstanding surgeons.
So I think it would be a great place to train.
So I think my favorite thing about this program is that we're really like a
family. We all come together, we all hang out outside of work.
We just get along really well. It's a really good cohesive unit.
And I think that's invaluable when you're talking about residency programs
because we're just spending so much time together.
So it's wonderful to be around people that are great to work with.
I think really how much it feels like a family.
Coming from South Carolina, I'm pretty far from home. So you know,
I've made a lot of really good friends, lifelong friends through the program,
through my fellow residents.
And I think just the collegiality that we have amongst each other,
as well as our faculty members. You know,
they're always there to help whether it's clinical situation or, you know,
personal advice about our future.
They're always a phone call away and are willing to help us.
Most of our time is spent here at Henry Ford Wyandotte.
And here we get like large volume bread and butter general surgery cases.
We do a lot of laparoscopic surgeries here and we do do some outside rotations
as well. And actually in going in those outside rotations,
one thing that I learned is you know,
experienced in laparoscopic surgery is not necessarily equal across all
programs.
And I think our program does an excellent job in residents in laparoscopic
skills and bread and butter general surgery. If you come here,
you would be very comfortable by the time you graduate in lab coleus,
lab appies, hernias, all bread and butter,
general surgery would be very comfortable with.
With regard to some of our out rotations.
I think we also do like a pretty good job of exposing us to other environments
as well. For trauma,
we go to DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital which is one of the top hospitals in the
country for penetrating trauma in terms of volume.
We also go to Henry Ford main in Detroit for SICU and
transplant.
You also have the option of going there for elective rotations as well.
One thing I appreciate about going to Henry Ford downtown for those rotations,
is you do get exposure to a more, I guess like traditional academic,
large, you know, academic environment. Whereas at Wyandotte, you know,
this is more of a, it's a, you know,
a large hospital with more of a community hospital feel. You Know,
we are on like a first name basis with most of our nurses here.
We have a very good relationship, with nursing here.
So I think overall by the end of residency,
you feel very comfortable in very different environments.
When I was looking at programs,
I was looking at some programs close to home that would train me to be a good
general surgeon possibly with the option to go into fellowship.
So that's really what brought me to looking at Henry Ford Wyandotte as a
program. I liked the fact that it's associated with a larger center,
so we have some stability and some more opportunities through that
with rotations and trauma, as well as we do children's surgery down in
Dayton. And then also I looked at the residents relationship with each other,
and I wanted to find a place where everyone got along well,
because five years is a long time to work with people that maybe you don't enjoy
so much.
So I was really happy to see how well the residents got along with each other.
My favorite thing about working in Wyandotte is that the sense of
comradery I get with my peers,
the fact that I can call on attendings for different consulting
services directly.
I liked the atmosphere of living amongst my family, basically.
I liked that the food's great in the hospital. The cafeteria is really good.
If I could go back and do it all over again,
I would choose the exact same thing I did the first time.
It's a really welcoming place.
And even when you go and rotate in other hospitals,
people speak very highly of you and speak highly of the people that come from
Wyandotte. And that's a blessing.
I live in Dearborn, Michigan. I really like it. There's lots of great diversity,
lots of great food. And it's centrally located both to the hospital,
Detroit and anywhere else in the surrounding suburbs you want to go to.
And I live here in Wyandotte, very close to the hospital,
lots of nice places to live close to Detroit and
right across from Canada.
I'm a first year,
so I've been here about a month now and my wife and I live a couple of blocks
away from the Detroit River.
So we love going down to the river and just walking along. It's really pretty.
We were not expecting that when we found out I matched into Detroit.
And then also the diversity of cases.
So we've got a lot general surgery is the main focus here.
And so multiple attendings do things differently, whether it be robotic,
laparoscopic or open. So I think as a, as a graduating senior,
I'll be really comfortable with multiple ways to treat similar issues.
So I live in downtown Detroit.
I'm actually from the North suburbs of Detroit. So this is home for me,
but having,
getting an opportunity to live in downtown has been so much fun.
It's such a vibrant city. And I think for me,
that's really interesting cause it hasn't always been
but living downtown is a ton of fun.
Usually there's tons of games. You can go to the Redwings,
the Pistons, the Tigers, Lions everyone's right downtown. So it's lots of,
lots of fun things to do downtown. There's also the Riverwalk.
There's tons of fun restaurants. There's just a lot of,
lot of life downtown and it's a excellent,
excellent place to get away when we have free time.
My plan after residency is to do a Colorectal fellowship.
We have a great colorectal surgeries here at this program,
and I've also been able to do an elective at Henry Ford main.
And I'm interested in pursuing colorectal.
And with our great numbers of bread and butter, general surgery cases.
I'm planning to do acute care surgery after residency.
As of right now, I'm thinking about going into plastic surgery.
I'm very excited about that. I've gotten some exposure to plastics here,
and then we also get an opportunity to do an elective rotation as a third year
resident.
So I'm planning on doing a plastic surgery elective at Henry Ford main downtown.
Henry Ford Wyandotte is a very welcoming environment where the residents
treat each other with respect and work hard to help each other,
not just with their own personal work.
And we're going to be given the opportunities to learn a lot of surgery here.
My name is Sherry Johnson.
I went to Henry Ford Wyandotte general surgery residency from 2013 to
2018.
Following that I went to University of Arkansas for breast surgery,
oncology fellowship. I'm now in Anchorage, Alaska, my hometown,
where I just completed my first year of being an attending,
doing about 50% breast cancer and 50% general surgery.
Dr. Baidoun asked me to send him a little short video of what
this program has meant to me for the next interviewing class.
Wyandotte is unique and that it's a very strong, heavy,
general surgery based community program,
but then it has access to the main Henry Ford Health System with exposure to
research, transplant, level one traumas,
blunt and penetrating surgical ICU.
There are pediatric electives as well as access to other,
other electives as well. Over the last seven years,
the residents that I came up with and have known since have graduated,
have all gone to their hometowns or their desired locations.
And they all are very happy with the training that they got at Wyandotte.
They're all safe, competent in general surgeons. And over the last five years,
we've actually graduated a few residents to go into pretty competitive
fellowships, including breast surgery oncology fellowships,
critical care fellowships, minimally invasive fellowships.
All of those are markers of what a good program is.
Knowing what I know now, being in Anchorage,
being at my local community hospitals,
doing bread and butter general surgery,
acute care surgery on emergency room call,
taking care of breast cancer patients.
If I had to do it again and choose a general surgery residency,
Henry Ford Wyandotte would be the place that I would choose. Thanks.
My name's Andy Holley.
I'm a general surgeon at Magnolia Regional Health Center in Corinth,
Mississippi.
I practice all facets of general surgery including some advanced laparoscopic
surgery, including sleeve gastrectomy.
My surgical training was at Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital in Detroit, Michigan,
or outside of Detroit in Wyandotte. I had an excellent experience there.
I felt like my surgical training was very good.
I enjoyed my time there.
Had excellent rapport with the physicians and staff there and felt like that
they really took an interest in me and helped me become the surgeon that I
needed to be for myself, my family, and our community.
I really felt like our surgical education there was really good with Dr.
He took a lot of time and interest in us and making sure that we knew things
that we needed to know for our surgical boards.
And I felt very well-prepared to take both my written and my oral surgical
boards.