OVERVIEW

Resident Rotations

 

The Orthopaedic residency program at the David Geffen School of Medicine @ UCLA is divided into five services.  The UCLA-1 service is primarily a joint replacement service.  The UCLA-2 service is primarily sports medicine which includes foot & ankle as well.  The UCLA-3 service is limited to spine and the UCLA-4 is oncology.  The fifth service is that of our trauma service, some hand experience and a small amount of pediatrics.  There is a combined hand service, which is responsible for upper extremity care at UCLA, Olive View-UCLA County Hospital and the West LA VA program.  It is staffed by one resident from the orthopaedic surgical service and one resident from the plastic surgery service.

At the conclusion of PGY2, two residents are selected to spend a year in the laboratory. During this year they are not expected to do any clinical work except as pertains to patients who are part of their research protocol.  It is our intention that they fully develop their efforts towards a research year with a member of our research faculty as their primary mentor.

There is, as well, an exchange of residents between Harbor-UCLA Hospital and UCLA.  A PGY4 Harbor resident rotates for four months at UCLA and spends time usually on the sports, spine and oncology services.  A PGY5 resident from UCLA rotates to Harbor and spends time as indicated on a trauma service at Harbor- UCLA Hospital.

Program by year: Please click here for block diagram.

In the PGY2 year the residents spend seven months at the UCLA Medical Center and Santa Monica-UCLA & Orthopaedic Hospital facility with rotations on the spine, sports, oncology, and trauma/pediatarics services with one month of vacation.  Two months are spent in pediatric orthopaedics at the Los Angeles Shriners Hospital and two months are spent at the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital. 

In the PGY3 year the majority of the year is spent at UCLA with two months at the West LA Veterans Administration Hospital.  Rotations at UCLA include adult trauma, pediatrics trauma, joints reconstruction, general orthopaedics and basic science.

In the PGY4 year there is a four-month rotation in pediatric orthopaedics at the Los Angeles Shriners Hospital, two months at the West LA VA Hospital, and five months on rotations at UCLA and Santa Monica-UCLA & Orthopaedic Hospital facility.

In the PGY5 year serves as a senior resident year with rotations for adult reconstruction, trauma, hand, and sports at UCLA, and adult reconstruction at the West LA VA as well as trauma at Harbor-UCLA Hospital.