The residents must be available for emergency operative procedures which are assigned to part-time faculty. The residents will be responsible for preparing and presenting two orthopaedic grand rounds during the academic year in addition to organizing and presenting conferences at each of the respective hospitals. The staff service orthopaedic clinic will be the primary outpatient responsibility of the orthopaedic residents at each of the respective hospitals. The junior resident is responsible to the chief resident and attending surgeon on the various services. The primary care of patients on the service.
Daily work rounds on the patients and accompanying the attending and chief resident on rounds.
Work rounds are to be completed prior to surgery, but no normal dressing changes are to be done before going to the operating room. Appropriate notes in the patients' charts are to be made at that time. Workups, to include complete history and physical examination on all elective and emergency admissions on the individual service. The elective admission list may be found in the Admitting Office, and it should be checked daily. To see all Orthopaedic consultations in the E. R. and emergency consultations in house with the private attending.