Program Overview

The St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor Hospital Colon and Rectal Surgery Residency is an ACGME-accredited one year clinical program centered in a 537 bed teaching hospital on a 340 acre campus.  Candidates apply and are appointed through the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP). The Program Director is Robert K Cleary, MD. The first resident will begin training July 1, 2012.

• Conference Schedule
• Meetings with Program Director
• Core Competencies
• Procedure Numbers

Maximally Invasive Teaching Questions

• Anal Fissures
• Anorectal Abscess-Fistula
• End Stoma Construction
• Hemorrhoidectomy
• Incisional Hernia Repair
• Open Sigmoid Resection Colovaginal Fistula
• Lap R Colectomy
• Lap Sigmoid Resection for Diverticulitis
• Loop Stoma Construction
• Open Low Anterior Resection for Cancer
• Open Transabdominal Rectopexy
• Parastomal Hernia Repair
• Pilonidal Disease
• Stoma Takedown
• Subtotal Colectomy for Cancer
• Transanal Excision of Rectal Neoplasm