<p>quick question: do medical students require you to do surgery? or residency programs require you to do surgery?</p>
<p>All medical schools will require you to do a rotation in general surgery during the clinical years so that you get exposed to it. But you won’t be “doing surgery” as a medical student. You’ll be expected to scrub in and then assist the surgeon to varying degrees depending on the individual surgeon and student.
In surgical residency programs, yes, you’ll be doing the surgeries at some point.</p>