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Program & Rotations

Your residency program in the Division of Orthopedic Surgery is designed to expose you to the seven major specialties represented by our faculty. You will rotate with each faculty member at least once in your five-year program. Many of the operations in which you take part will be in conjunction with other divisions and departments.

Rotation Schedule

ROTATION PGY-1 PGY-2 PGY-3 PGY-4 PGY-5
Orthopedics

Adult Reconstruction (Joints/Tumor)
UW
 
 
UW 
UW

Community
 
 
SP/MH
 
 

Foot & Ankle

 
MH
 
MH
 

Hand

 
UW
UW
 
MH

Night Float

 
UW
 
 
 
Pediatric
 
 
UW
 
UW
Research
 
 
 
UW
 
Spine
 
UW
 
UW
 
Sports
 
UW
 
UW
 
Trauma
 
UW
UW
UW
UW
VA
 
 
VA
 
VA
Non-Orthopedics

Anesthesiology
UW
 
 
 
 

Emergency Medicine

UW
 
 
 
 
General Surgery
MH
 
 
 
 
Pediatrics
UW
 
 
 
 
Plastics/Burn
UW
 
 
 
 
TLC (Trauma and Life Support Center )
UW
 
 
 
 
Trauma
UW
 
 
 
 
Night Float
UW
 
 
 
 


Each abbreviation indicates the hospital site for that rotation.

While on service at the UW and VA Hospitals, you will share call responsibility, covering all services at the two hospitals. One junior resident (PGY-2 through PGY-4) and one senior resident (PGY-5) are on call each night. Orthopedic interns share junior call with a PGY-4 during their three months on orthopedic rotation. Senior residents are on call every fourth night; junior residents average every eighth night. While working at Meriter or St. Marys, you will be on call according to the schedule set by the respective hospital.

You are required to complete an approved clinical or laboratory research project under the direction of at least one faculty member. Your project must be submitted in written form for publication or presented at a regional or national meeting. You may approach any of the faculty for ideas and collaboration.

Your research project should be well underway when you begin the basic science rotation in PGY-4. During this rotation, you are free of clinic responsibility to allow time for research and individual study. You also have the opportunity to work in the Biomechanics Laboratory in cooperation with Drs. Ray Vanderby, PhD and Wilmot Valhmu, PhD

In the basic science rotation, you will be both teacher and student, preparing the anatomy dissections each week and organizing several conferences. A syllabus for the basic science curriculum outlines the material you will cover.

 

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