Residency Program Overview

The Orthopaedic Residency Program curriculum is a five-year program comprised of general orthopaedics and subspecialty rotations. Overall, the residents acquire a wide experience in orthopaedics, seeing the field both from the perspective of private practice and full-time academic medicine. Because of the department’s size, residents are known well and monitored closely through their advancement assuming increasing responsibility as they progress.

Throughout the residency, there is protected time for conferences, as well as development and completion of a research project. Educational goals are emphasized and monitored as the resident progresses through residency.

Program Year Summaries

The intern year (R-1) complies with the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS) requirements and consists of rotations in orthopaedics, general surgery (trauma team), vascular surgery, surgical ICU, anesthesiology, emergency medicine, internal medicine (infectious disease), pediatric general surgery and plastic surgery.

R-2 consists of General Orthopaedics (four months), VA Medical Center (four months), Spine (four months) and Anatomy/Research Rehab (four months).

R-3 consists of Pediatric Orthopaedics (four months); Foot & Ankle (four months) and Ortho Trauma (four months).

R-4 consists of Hand Surgery (four months), Shoulder & Elbow (two months), Sports & Knee Reconstruction (two months), Pediatrics (two months) and Spine (two months).

R-5 consists of four months as chief resident on the Ortho Trauma Service at MVH, four months as chief resident at the VA Medical Center and four months of Adult Reconstruction, which includes Shoulder & Elbow Reconstruction and Hip & Knee Reconstruction. In 2005-6 we incorporated a rotation with Dennis Brown, M.D., a clinical faculty member with a practice in total joint replacement and revision who is based at Good Samaritan Hospital, an affiliate of Miami Valley Hospital.

Having transitioned to a mentored, subspecialty-based rotation schedule, residents are able to follow patients preoperatively and postoperatively. Additionally, they see nonoperative work-up and treatment of musculoskeletal conditions.

Resident Conferences

The teaching curriculum consists of a one hour conference from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m., Monday through Friday. Attendance is mandatory for all residents. With conference every morning, Attendings understand the residents are unavailable from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. For more details, see: Typical Education Program for Residents.

Salary for 2007-2008

R-1 — $45,062
R-2 — $46,375
R-3 — $47,537
R-4 — $48,700
R-5 — $50,574
R-6 — $52,448