### Preliminary Residency

  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.

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’s 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’s safety-net hospital and one of the busiest trauma centers, Boston Medical Center provides unique opportunities that are not offered everywhere.

Applicants who are interested in a preliminary position in our program should send inquiries to [Lana Ketlere](http://Lana.Ketlere@bmc.org).

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###### Postgraduate positions for our most recent preliminary residents: 

### 2025-2026 Preliminary Residents

Dr. Ryan Healy – Internal Medicine, HCA TriStar Centennial Medical Center, Nashville  
Dr. Alexander Neamtu – Anesthesiology, Boston Medical Center  
Dr. Laken Smothers – Categorical PGY-1 position, General Surgery, Howard University  
Dr. Sameep Vakharia – Interventional Radiology, Boston Medical Center  
Dr. YooJin Yoon – Categorical PGY-1 position, General Surgery, Rutgers University

### 2024-2025 Preliminary Residents

Dr. Granville Baxa – Anesthesiology, Boston Medical Center  
Dr. Michael Ferraton – Anesthesiology, Boston Medical Center  
Dr. Mason Merriel – Medicine, Meharry Medical College  
Dr. Tina Phan – Categorical PGY-1 position, General Surgery, Tufts Medical Center  
Dr. David Posawatz – Categorical PGY-1 position, General Surgery, Boston Medical Center

### 2023-2024 Preliminary Residents

Dr. Christina Agudelo – Interventional Radiology, Boston Medical Center  
Dr. Zhuoyan Lu – Categorical PGY-1 position, General Surgery, Danbury Hospital  
Dr. Traylor Lawson – Categorical PGY-2 position, Boston Medical Center  
Dr. Luis Rendon – Anesthesiology, University of Central Florida, HCA Healthcare

### 2022-2023 Preliminary Residents

Dr. Stephen Dalton-Petillo – Categorical PGY-3 position, General Surgery, Boston Medical Center  
Dr. Brandon Caldwell – Interventional Radiology, Northwestern McGaw Medical Center  
Dr. Aliyah Gaines – Preliminary PGY-2 position, General Surgery, Temple University  
Dr. Jessica Shi – Interventional Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center  
Dr. Noreen Siddiqi – Preliminary PGY-2 position, General Surgery, University of Alabama

### 2021-2022 Preliminary Residents

Dr. Stephen Dalton-Petillo – Preliminary PGY-2 position, General Surgery, Boston Medical Center  
Dr. Yousif Kettoola – Preliminary PGY-2 position, General Surgery, UMass Medical Center  
Dr. Andrew Kimber – Categorical PGY-2 position, General Surgery, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Odessa Campus  
Dr. Jason Park – Vascular surgery research, Boston Medical Center  
Dr. Zachary Waldman (PGY-2) – Categorical PGY-3 position, General Surgery, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Odessa Campus

### 2020-2021 Preliminary Residents

Dr. Fangyu Chen – Anesthesia, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania  
Dr. Ansh Johri – Interventional Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center  
Dr. Liz Lin – Diagnostic Radiology, Boston Medical Center  
Dr. Isabel Sausjord – OBGYN, University of Massachusetts Medical Center  
Dr. Keerthi Vengatesan – Categorical position, General Surgery, Danbury Hospital  
Dr. Gillian Goddard (PGY-2) – Categorical position, General Surgery, Boston Medical Center

### 2019-2020 Preliminary Residents

Dr. Breyen Coffin – Diagnostic Radiology, Boston Medical Center  
Dr. Hai Hoang – Diagnostic Radiology, Mount Auburn Hospital  
Dr. Aaron Maybury – Diagnostic Radiology, Boston Medical Center  
Dr. Anne Sailer – Interventional Radiology, Yale-New Haven Hospital  
Dr. Robert Walker – Neurosurgery fellowship, Boston Medical Center  
Dr. Carolina Torres (PGY-2) – Categorical position, General Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center