In July of 1980, the Department of Orthopaedics Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine joined to become the amalgamated Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation. The program is currently approved by the Residents Review Committee of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and the American Medical Association for twelve residents in a four-year program. Deadline for applying to the program is November 1. The Residency Program PGY1 General surgical internship. This year is designed to provide the grounding and skills necessary to manage surgical patients.
Call is generally every third night.
PGY2 Residents are provided exposure as a junior resident on the Orthopaedic Trauma Service, and the Joint Reconstruction Service. In addition, the PGY2 covers the Emergency Room for all orthopeadic consultations. The resident spends a total of 4 months on each of these three rotations, however this is completed in 2 month blocks. Call is in-house every 3rd night on average and alternates between in house coverage and operative coverage. Operative coverage call is from home.