Resident Education
Our commitment to education is evident in all aspects of our
residency training program, which continues to be a model for
other orthopaedic and surgery residency programs. The program
contains all of the elements necessary for the development of an
educated orthopaedic surgeon. The Orthopaedic Residency Review
Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical
Education recently reviewed and approved the program without
citation. This is a tribute to our outstanding educational
program. In addition, we have five orthopaedic surgery fellows,
one each in orthopaedic oncology, sports medicine, hand and
upper extremity surgery, spine surgery, and joint replacement.
The clinical educational program
in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Chicago is centered
at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics and Weiss
Memorial Hospital as a cohesive academic unit with a full-time
clinical and basic science faculty dedicated to the care of
patients, education of students, residents, and fellows, and the
creation of new knowledge in the clinical and basic science of
musculoskeletal diseases. The clinical portion of the program
is carried out primarily by the fifteen full-time orthopaedic
surgeons. The clinical education is centered around inpatient
units, on-site and off-site outpatient clinics, and the
operating room. The management of patients is divided into
seven clinical services.
The clinical care of orthopaedic
surgery is divided into sections that include joint
reconstruction, spine, oncology, pediatrics, foot and ankle,
hand and upper extremity, and sports medicine. The faculty are
directly responsible as the physicians for patients and, with
the residents, make pre- and postoperative evaluations of
patients. There is no separation of clinics between the faculty
and residents! There is very little conflict between operating
room and clinic schedules.
Basic sciences are integrated into the educational program at
the bedside, during clinical conferences, and in a
well-structured didactic curriculum. We have a conference room
of more than 700 square feet which is dedicated to orthopaedic
education. We have other resources including a computer based
audio visual system, orthopaedic library, a microscope slide
projector and audio-visual materials. The faculty participate in
all of the didactic education. The didactic program is designed
to have a two-year repetitive sequence covering anatomy,
bioengineering, biology and pathology.
The Gerald Laros Memorial Library contains
wall-to-wall custom bookcases, conference table and chairs, and
two computer stations with on-line access to Internet and
Medline. Adjacent to the library, a resident office space houses
14 workstations, x-ray view boxes, and individual file space so
that the residents can work and study during the day and evening
hours. We moved the library and the resident offices closer to
our academic offices and added an Orthopaedic Oncology Learning
Center into which we put all the orthopaedic oncology files,
radiographs, oncology fellow’s office, and oncology database.
For more information on the residency, please see
the U of C Orthopaedic
resident's manual (900k).
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Last update:
January 11, 2008 |
