{"id":9863,"date":"2021-10-11T18:08:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T22:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/?page_id=9863"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:27:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:27:39","slug":"preliminary-residency","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/training\/residency\/preliminary-residency\/","title":{"rendered":"Preliminary Residency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston Medical Center (BMC) is proud to offer five PGY-1 preliminary positions in surgery. The preliminary year is typically filled by an advance match candidate who has already matched in a specialty, such as interventional radiology or anesthesiology, or is filled by someone who is interested in general surgery or one of the surgical subspecialties but has not yet matched.<\/p>\n

We offer exposure to many areas of surgery, including trauma\/acute care surgery, vascular, thoracic, colorectal, and MIS. The year is predominantly at BMC, but a few months are spent at the VA hospital in nearby West Roxbury, where you will work with residents from Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital. Anyone who is reentering the match will be counseled by Residency Program Director Donald Hess, MD, as well as our associate program directors. We take the education of our preliminary interns very seriously, and there will be little difference in rotation schedule and no difference in call responsibilities. All preliminary residents are expected to participate in didactic conferences and in the OR when assigned cases. As Boston\u2019s safety-net hospital and busiest trauma center, Boston Medical Center provides unique opportunities that are not offered everywhere.<\/p>\n

Applicants who are interested in a preliminary position in our program should send inquiries to Lana Ketlere<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Postgraduate positions for our most recent preliminary residents:<\/h6>\n

2024-2025 Preliminary Residents<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Granville Baxa \u2013 Anesthesiology, Boston Medical Center
\nDr. Michael Ferraton \u2013 Anesthesiology, Boston Medical Center
\nDr. Mason Merriel \u2013 Medicine, Meharry Medical College
\nDr. Tina Phan \u2013 Categorical PGY-1 position, General Surgery, Tufts Medical Center
\nDr. David Posawatz \u2013 Categorical PGY-1 position, General Surgery, Boston Medical Center<\/p>\n

2023-2024 Preliminary Residents<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Christina Agudelo \u2013 Interventional Radiology, Boston Medical Center
\nDr. Zhuoyan Lu \u2013 Categorical PGY-1 position, General Surgery, Danbury Hospital
\nDr. Traylor Lawson \u2013 Categorical PGY-2 position, Boston Medical Center
\nDr. Luis Rendon \u2013 Anesthesiology, University of Central Florida, HCA Healthcare<\/p>\n

2022-2023 Preliminary Residents<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Stephen Dalton-Petillo \u2013 Categorical PGY-3 position, General Surgery, Boston Medical Center
\nDr. Brandon Caldwell \u2013 Interventional Radiology, Northwestern McGaw Medical Center
\nDr. Aliyah Gaines\u00a0\u2013 Preliminary PGY-2 position, General Surgery, Temple University
\nDr. Jessica Shi\u00a0\u2013 Interventional Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
\nDr. Noreen Siddiqi\u00a0\u2013 Preliminary PGY-2 position, General Surgery, University of Alabama<\/p>\n

2021-2022 Preliminary Residents<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Stephen Dalton-Petillo \u2013 Preliminary PGY-2 position, General Surgery, Boston Medical Center
\nDr. Yousif Kettoola \u2013 Preliminary PGY-2 position, General Surgery, UMass Medical Center
\nDr. Andrew Kimber \u2013 Categorical PGY-2 position, General Surgery, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, <\/span>Odessa Campus
\nDr. Jason Park \u2013 Vascular surgery research, Boston Medical Center
\nDr. Zachary Waldman (PGY-2) \u2013 Categorical PGY-3 position, General Surgery, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center,<\/span>\u00a0Odessa Campus<\/p>\n

2020-2021 Preliminary Residents<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Fangyu Chen \u2013 Anesthesia, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
\nDr. Ansh Johri \u2013 Interventional Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center
\nDr. Liz Lin \u2013 Diagnostic Radiology, Boston Medical Center
\nDr. Isabel Sausjord \u2013 OB\/GYN, University of Massachusetts Medical Center
\nDr. Keerthi Vengatesan \u2013 Categorical position, General Surgery, Danbury Hospital
\nDr. Gillian Goddard (PGY-2) \u2013 Categorical position, General Surgery, Boston Medical Center<\/p>\n

2019-2020 Preliminary Residents<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Breyen Coffin \u2013 Diagnostic Radiology, Boston Medical Center
\nDr. Hai Hoang \u2013 Diagnostic Radiology, Mount Auburn Hospital
\nDr. Aaron Maybury \u2013 Diagnostic Radiology, Boston Medical Center
\nDr. Anne Sailer \u2013 Interventional Radiology, Yale-New Haven Hospital
\nDr. Robert Walker \u2013 Neurosurgery fellowship, Boston Medical Center
\nDr. Carolina Torres (PGY-2) \u2013 Categorical position, General Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boston Medical Center (BMC) is proud to offer five PGY-1 preliminary positions in surgery. The preliminary year is typically filled by an advance match candidate who has already matched in a specialty, such as interventional radiology or anesthesiology, or is filled by someone who is interested in general surgery or one of the surgical subspecialties […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16453,"featured_media":0,"parent":2867,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9863"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12858,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9863\/revisions\/12858"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}