The UAB Department of Surgery opened a new resident resource center this summer on the second floor of the Boshell Diabetes Building. The roughly 3,000-square-foot area features a kitchen, a conference room, a sitting area, showers, lockers and several computers for UAB Surgery residents to use while they’re on campus.

“We had a space like this for residents when I was in my residency program, and it was just awesome,” said UAB General Surgery Residency Program Director John Porterfield, M.D. “We watched the ballgames in there, hung out and let our guard down in a way we couldn’t do anywhere else.”

The Department of Surgery held an open house for the space on July 9, where residents, faculty, staff, administrators and supporters of the project toured the area, celebrated its opening and honored those who made this project possible.

Check out a tour of the Department of Surgery Resident Resource Center led by general surgery research resident Frank Gleason, M.D., here, and watch what Porterfield and other departmental, as well as health system, leaders had to say about the space at the open house here.