The Chief Resident on each service is responsible for the attendance of junior residents and students assigned to that service. Responsibility for organizing certain designated conferences falls to the Chief Resident of the service assigned to present. Ideal selection of cases for presentation at conference shall always include those with adequate follow-up care, so that the treatment option selected can be appropriately evaluated. Held weekly, is coordinated by Dr. Kenneth D. Johnson, Chief of the Orthopaedic Trauma Service with the assistance of Dr. Mark P. McAndrew. Responsibility for organization and case selection rotates among the Chief Residents, but cases may be selected and presented by residents at all levels.
Emphasis is placed on review of the literature with reference to key articles.
Monthly orthopaedic complications are reported by the chief resident on each service and discussed with the faculty. The two-year teaching curriculum, coordinated by Dr. Herbert S. Schwartz, is devoted to basic scientific concepts with clinical implications for orthopaedics. An attendance record is also kept for this conference. Anatomy is offered for eight weeks every year during the winter rotation, emphasizing orthopaedic operative approaches, and culminating in a final, oral examination of PGY-2 residents by the orthopaedic faculty. A twelve-week lecture series is devoted to Pathology, and six sessions each are dedicated to Biomechanics and Physiology.