Emphasis is placed on intraoperative teaching.
Students will follow patients during their hospital stay, and assist in pre- and postoperative care. Correlation between the clinical symptoms and physical findings and intraoperative pathology are stressed. The Bassett Hospital has a busy trauma service and provides care for a large rheumatoid population. In addition, many sports and farm injuries are treated. The operative experience includes fracture surgery, total joint replacement, arthroscopic surgery, and spinal surgery, in addition to basic orthopaedic disorders.