Conference Schedule

The conference schedule and formal teaching program provides residents with a comprehensive course in the clinical and basic sciences of orthopedic surgery. There is a two year cycle of topics built around modules of the classic orthopedic diseases and tissue types. Each module starts with the basic sciences and progress’ through the clinical sciences. For instance the section on trauma over three months will take the learner through the basic sciences of injury and repair and lead to anatomically based clinical fracture topics given by the trauma faculty. In this way basic and clinical sciences are smoothly integrated with each other. Similar progression is developed for cartilage, growth and development, ligament and tendon injury and various anatomic areas. Increasingly we have moved away from lecture formats and towards case based teaching methods.

Our residents are actively involved in the educational program and present fracture topics and Morbidity and Mortality and Grand Rounds. There is an anatomy and skills course for the R1’s and 2’s. The teams all have subspecialty based conferences. The department sponsors yearly visiting lectureships for the senior residents and alumni programs, children’s orthopedics and sports medicine. These outstanding educational opportunities bring national and internationally recognized experts to interact with, stimulate and teach the residents.