There is no pre-rounding by junior residents. Everyone works together to get things done efficiently. Residents are required to help with coding for consults and clinic visits. This allows them to successfully run an Orthopedic practice after graduation. There are no Orthopedics fellows at West Virginia University allowing the residents to do the more challenging cases.
Residents rotate through different services during each level of training.
Residents on the sports medicine services provide care for West Virginia University athletes , including training room visits, surgeries and on the field care. The Department of Orthopedics contains its own orthopedic library, which has recently been expanded to include all of the new editions of the major texts and journals. Residents are required to produce at least one research manuscript of publishable quality before graduation and must present it at the annual Research Day conference. Teaching is a primary concern of the Department. In addition to the basic and clinical science lecture series, we have weekly grand rounds with our residents, a monthly orthopedic journal club, subspecialty conferences and journal clubs and anatomy and psychomotor skills conferences.