--- title: "About the SRMC Surgery Residency Program at Sutter Health" description: "Learn more about the Sutter Roseville Medical Center Surgery Residency Program." url: "https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/srmc-surgery/about" --- 1. [Home](https://www.sutterhealth.org/) / 2. [Education](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education) / 3. [Graduate Medical Education](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme) / 4. [Residencies](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies) / 5. [Surgery, Roseville](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/srmc-surgery) / 6. About the Program # About the Residency Program **Section menu** - [Surgery, Roseville](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/srmc-surgery "Surgery, Roseville") - [About the Program](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/srmc-surgery/about "About the Program") - [Curriculum](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/srmc-surgery/curriculum "Curriculum") - [Didactics](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/srmc-surgery/didactic-activities "Didactics") - [Faculty](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/srmc-surgery/faculty "Faculty") - [FAQs](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/srmc-surgery/faqs "FAQs") - [How To Apply](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/srmc-surgery/apply "How To Apply") - [Message From Our Program Director](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/srmc-surgery/message-from-program-director "Message From Our Program Director") - [Residents](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/srmc-surgery/residents "Residents") - [Surgery, Roseville](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/srmc-surgery "Surgery, Roseville") - [About the Program](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/srmc-surgery/about "About the Program") - [Curriculum](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/srmc-surgery/curriculum "Curriculum") - [Didactics](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/srmc-surgery/didactic-activities "Didactics") - [Faculty](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/srmc-surgery/faculty "Faculty") - [FAQs](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/srmc-surgery/faqs "FAQs") - [How To Apply](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/srmc-surgery/apply "How To Apply") - [Message From Our Program Director](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/srmc-surgery/message-from-program-director "Message From Our Program Director") - [Residents](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/srmc-surgery/residents "Residents") Located in Northern California, [Sutter Roseville Medical Center](https://www.sutterhealth.org/find-location/facility/sutter-roseville-medical-center-1043247063) is a tertiary care  hospital focused on the future and patient-centered care. The Sutter Roseville Medical Center Residency Program is dedicated to promoting a learning environment that prepares future physicians to provide high-quality medical care. Repeatedly recognized as one of the [top hospitals in California](https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/ca/sutter-roseville-medical-center-6932645 "top hospitals in California"), Sutter Roseville’s 418-bed medical center serves 10 counties in the greater Sacramento area and offers a full range of healthcare services. It’s home to a Level II trauma center, a Level III NICU, the Sutter Rehabilitation Institute and a Joint Commission-recognized Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center. In 2020, a carefully designed, patient-focused 98,000 square-foot expansion opened to meet the growing needs of Roseville and nearby communities. ## About Sutter Health Sutter Roseville Medical Center is part of the [award-winning Sutter Health integrated system of care](https://www.sutterhealth.org/about-us/awards). Nearly three million patients benefit from connected care at Sutter Health facilities across the Bay Area, Sacramento Valley and the Central Coast. Sutter’s decades-long investment in graduate-level medical education and established institutional accreditation through the [family medicine](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/family-medicine) in Sacramento, Davis, Amador and Santa Rosa, as well as [internal medicine](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/srmc-internal-medicine), [ophthalmology](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/cpmc-ophthalmology) and [psychiatry](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/cpmc-psychiatry) at CPMC. The leadership, providers and staff at Sutter Health are committed to fostering a positive, supportive environment for training tomorrow’s successful physicians.  Sutter Roseville Medical Center - Graduate Medical Education Residency Program ## Surgery Residency Program Residents in the program will have access to the tools they need in a learning environment that prepares future physicians to provide safe, high quality surgical care. The residents joining now, as we begin the program, will also have the unique opportunity to help shape what is expected to be a premier residency led by renowned trauma surgeon [Jon Perlstein, M.D, FACS](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/srmc-surgery/message-from-program-director). Learn about the [curriculum](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/srmc-surgery/curriculum) and [didactic activities](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/gme/residencies/srmc-surgery/didactic-activities). The program’s primary site is Sutter Roseville Medical Center. The medical center houses 14 main operating rooms as well as two surgery centers with five ORs in each. Surgery residents will also rotate to nearby Sutter Medical Center Sacramento and UC Davis Medical Center. At each location, residents will train under board-certified and licensed physicians. Sutter Roseville Medical Center Graduate Medical Education Residency Tour ### Living in Roseville Live at the base of the Sierra Nevada foothills, where the sun shines 340 days a year. Roseville is home to abundant job opportunities, low crime rates, and all that Northern California offers, from wine country to ski slopes. [Get to Know the Area](https://www.roseville.ca.us/government/departments/economic_development/quality_of_life) ### Contact Us **Program Administrator** Max La Capria [SRMCsurgeryresidency@sutterhealth.org](mailto:SRMCsurgeryresidency@sutterhealth.org) **Program Director** Jon Perlstein, M.D., FACS [Get In Touch](mailto:SRMCsurgeryresidency@sutterhealth.org) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"MedicalOrganization","name":"Sutter Health","@id":"https://www.sutterhealth.org/#medicalorganization","url":"https://www.sutterhealth.org","logo":"https://www.sutterhealth.org/static/images/sutter-health-logo.svg","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","streetAddress":"2200 River Plaza 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same support\nwhenever we need it.\nKARLI MATTER: They will let me take steps,\nbut I will walk before I will run.\nSo if I take a misstep, they are very much there\nand they have always been there to guide me\nand to give me more training.\nANDREY KISEL: I think it's exciting to be\nworking at a hospital that's continuously expanding.\nYou're not just getting the typical chronic cases, but also\nkind of more rural medicine involved too.\nDANA GOLDEN: The pathology and the volume of patients\nis beneficial to us as residents,\nas we're very early on in our careers,\ntrying to see everything, get all that information.\nSRISHTI LALLER: It's very exciting.\nI'm never tired of the fast pace.\nI am enjoying it.\nKARLI MATTER: We scrub in often.\nSHIRZAD SHIR: We've been able to throw stitches on the robots,\nsee crazy stuff on trauma and gets to do open X\nlabs quite frequently here.\nKARLI MATTER: You are in the OR and you\nare learning constantly.\nANDREY KISEL: All of us, as first 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licensed physicians.\nResidents in the internal medicine program\nwill spend time in different departments\nacross the Sutter Roseville campus,\nincluding cardiology, neurology, infectious disease,\npulmonary disease, oncology, hematology, and more.\nResidents will gain experience in internal medicine\nand its subspecialties and learn how\nto provide quality, patient-centered, compassionate\ncare.\nResident physicians have a dedicated half day\neach week for academic conferences.\nThey are free from clinical activities\nso that they can focus on this important part\nof their training.\nOur faculty members lecture on topics within their specialties\nin addition to residents presenting and participating\nin M&M conferences, pre-op conferences, journal clubs,\nresearch curriculum, and wellness discussions.\nThe leadership, providers, and staff in the Sutter Health\nNetwork are committed to fostering\na positive, culturally diverse, and inclusive environment\nfor empowering tomorrow's 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