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**Applications for Internship and Residency Training
will be available through ERAS only.
OVERVIEW
Orthopaedic Residency Training Program
Resident Roster 2007-08
Overview of Resident Rotations
The UCLA / OH Department of
Orthopaedic Surgery and affiliated institutions offer an integrated five-year
program to orthopaedic residents providing training in the multi-subspecialty
disciplines of orthopaedic surgery. The
program includes a balance of clinical experience in adult reconstructive
surgery, children's orthopaedics, trauma, surgery of the hand, sports medicine,
metabolic bone disease, spinal reconstruction, and orthopaedic oncology, with
continued integrated studies in basic science and research. The R1 year provides
diversified surgery training needed for both an academic and clinical career.
The outpatient orthopaedic clinics at the Medical Plaza have abundant
clinical material. There are
subspecialty orthopaedic units in hip, knee, spine, trauma, sports medicine,
hand, foot, tumor, metabolic bone, and pediatric orthopaedics.
Each of these units has a full-time faculty director and residents who
are assigned to participate in the care of the patients.
The Medical Plaza contains an outpatient surgical unit that provides
facilities for an increasing number of surgical procedures.
Our program is designed to give graduated responsibility, allowing each
resident to perform clinically and surgically according to his or her ability,
including the responsibility of managing residents and medical students of less
experience.
The UCLA Center for the Health Sciences has 668 hospital beds; twenty-six of
these are designated as orthopaedics/plastic.
There are 30 additional orthopaedic beds at the West Los Angeles Veterans
Administration Medical Center and 60 beds at the Los Angeles Shriners Hospital
for Crippled Children. Additionally,
there is a full service orthopaedic and trauma elective at the Harbor/UCLA
Medical Center. In 1998, UCLA
entered a Strategic Alliance with the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital, which
brings with it a rich tradition in pediatric orthopaedics and will encompass new
structures including an orthopaedic research facility at the UCLA campus.
At UCLA Medical Center, there are sixteen full-time faculty members, one
clinical attending orthopaedic surgeon, and clinical faculty of approximately 50
individuals.
Basic science study as related to orthopaedics is integrated throughout the
entire curriculum with additional concentrated programs in anatomy, pathology,
and biomechanics. A comprehensive
core lecture series is given each Wednesday morning when residents have no
clinical obligations, additionally each hospital and specialty area has a weekly
conference. All residents have the
opportunity to participate in clinical and/or laboratory investigations during
their residency program. It is
required that all residents present their research at UCLA Grand Rounds and to
Shriners Hospital, as well as prepare at least one manuscript worthy of
publication in a refereed journal.
Within the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, there are bioengineers, molecular
biologists, a kinesiologist, and computer experts to instruct
and assist the residents in the preparation and analysis of their projects.
Before the completion of the R2 year, two of the R2's are selected as
research fellows and they devote an additional year to intensive basic science
and clinical research. We feel this
gives those outstanding residents the unique opportunity of preparing themselves
for a possible academic career.
Our goal is to provide our
residents with a broad-based and well-diversified clinical and academic
experience suited to those individuals eager to become either academic
orthopaedic surgeons or clinical leaders in the community.
Orthopaedic Grand Rounds are
held on the first Wednesday morning of each month at 9:00 AM in the Gonda
Research Building at UCLA, Room 1357, and are
open to all those interested in attending.
Sincerely,
Gerald A.M. Finerman, M.D.
Professor and Chairman
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