Combined facilities provide extensive experience in outpatient and inpatient care, including trauma, reconstructive surgery, pediatric surgery, and rehabilitation. Each resident performs an abundance of operative procedures, and they are expected to demonstrate competent knowledge of the relevant anatomic details, knowledge of the key steps required, and technical competence. Staff supervision is provided through the active participation of full-time academic faculty complimented by talented private practitioners.

Instruction in the basic science aspects of the musculoskeletal system includes an integrated seminar series spanning the five years of residency. Access to researchers, full-time orthopaedic faculty, a cutting-edge bioengineering laboratory, and a cell and tissue culture laboratory, provides a unique and rare 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 academic endeavor adds a critical and irreplaceable dimension to specialized training for the resident who plans to conduct independent investigations and the creation of associated abstracts. To do so requires a comprehensive knowledge of a specialized subject. Our residency program develops each resident’s ability to critically analyze all types of information, regardless of the source.