Research

The department offers residents superb opportunities to participate in basic, translational or clinical research in the musculoskeletal sciences. There are department laboritories for basic and translational research in biomenchanics, bioengineering, cell biology and animal research. There is a long traditiona of long term follow up studies of orthopaedic conditions and there is an electronic medical record with a fully incorporated outcomes database. All of the faculty are available to participate with residents in important investigations.

In their R-1 year residents are mentored to complete a database mining project which serves as an introduction to our research program. This is presented to the department at the end of the year. Formal investigative projects are developed during the R-2 year in conjunction with a faculty mentor and the department resident research committee. Proposals are developed ionf formal grant application style and modified as necessary through a review process. During the residency there are two dedicated research rotations one in the R-3 and one in the R-4 year.