General Surgery Residency

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital is the largest private teaching hospital on the California coast between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. Cottage Health has one of the longest running surgical training programs in the western United States.

Founded in 1921, Cottage’s Surgical Residency Program has been fully approved since 1944, shortly after the founding of the American Board of Surgery.

Cottage is a tertiary referral center and Level 1 trauma center with the largest geographic catchment area in California. Approximately 14,000 operations are performed annually in the main operating rooms and 4,500 are performed in outpatient surgical centers. Cottage is noted for its outstanding patient care, superb support services, state-of-the-art technology, and excellent teaching environment.