Residency

The strongest part of the program is the extensive broad based clinical training received. Overall, the combined facilities provide extensive experience in outpatient and inpatient care, including trauma, reconstructive surgery, children's surgery, and rehabilitation. Each resident performs an abundance of operative procedures, and he/she is expected to demonstrate competent knowledge of the relevant anatomic details, knowledge of the key steps required, and technical competence for the necessary surgical skills. Staff supervision incorporates the active participation of a full-time academic faculty together with talented private practitioners.

Instruction in the basic science aspects of the musculoskeletal system includes an integrated seminar series spanning the four years of residency. The presence of researchers on the full-time orthopaedic faculty, together with an excellent bioengineering laboratory, plus a cell and tissue culture laboratory, offers an opportunity to develop special skills, whether in biomechanics, biomaterials, or basic studies of bone and other musculoskeletal tissues.

Each resident is expected to complete two academic projects, including a laboratory project. This type of endeavor adds a dimension to specialized training otherwise unobtainable, because a resident who plans and conducts an independent investigation and creates an original report acquires comprehensive knowledge of a specialized subject, and this in turn expands his/her interests. The process also sharpens the resident's ability to critically analyze all types of information, regardless of the source, thereby culminating the educational process.