{"id":10144,"date":"2023-09-01T07:03:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T14:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/?page_id=10144"},"modified":"2025-10-07T14:08:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T21:08:47","slug":"curriculum-didactics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/careers-education\/graduate-medical-education\/our-programs\/orthopedic-surgery-resident-program\/curriculum-didactics\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum & Didactics \u2013 Orthopedic Surgery Residency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Curriculum & Didactics<\/h1>\n\n<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\n\n\n
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Rotation Schedule<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Block<\/th>PGY-1<\/th>PGY-2<\/th>PGY-3<\/th>PGY-4<\/th>Chief<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
1<\/td>ICS<\/td>Local Trauma<\/td>Pediatrics<\/td>Level 1 Trauma<\/td>Foot & Ankle\/Spine<\/td><\/tr>
2<\/td>Sports<\/td>Local Trauma<\/td>Pediatrics<\/td>Level 1 Trauma<\/td>Foot & Ankle\/Spine<\/td><\/tr>
3<\/td>Local Trauma<\/td>Hand\/UE<\/td>Pediatrics<\/td>Level 1 Trauma<\/td>Hand\/UE<\/td><\/tr>
4<\/td>Local Trauma<\/td>Hand\/UE<\/td>Pediatrics<\/td>Level 1 Trauma<\/td>Hand\/UE<\/td><\/tr>
5<\/td>General Surgery<\/td>Local Trauma<\/td>Sports Medicine<\/td>Sports Medicine<\/td>Trauma<\/td><\/tr>
6<\/td>General Surgery<\/td>Local Trauma<\/td>Sports Medicine<\/td>Sports Medicine<\/td>Trauma<\/td><\/tr>
7<\/td>Plastic Surgery<\/td>Sports Medicine <\/td>Foot & Ankle\/Spine<\/td>Adult Recon<\/td>Hand\/UE<\/td><\/tr>
8<\/td>Adult Recon<\/td>Sports Medicine<\/td>Foot & Ankle\/Spine<\/td>Adult Recon<\/td>Hand\/UE<\/td><\/tr>
9<\/td>Emergency Medicine<\/td>Adult Recon<\/td>Hand\/UE<\/td>Pediatrics<\/td>Trauma<\/td><\/tr>
10<\/td>General Orthopedics<\/td>Adult Recon<\/td>Hand\/UE<\/td>Pediatrics<\/td>Trauma<\/td><\/tr>
11<\/td>General Orthopedics<\/td>Foot & Ankle\/Spine<\/td>Orthopedic Oncology<\/td>Foot & Ankle\/Spine<\/td>Adult Recon<\/td><\/tr>
12<\/td>ICU<\/td>Foot & Ankle\/Spine<\/td>Orthopedic Oncology<\/td>Foot & Ankle\/Spine<\/td>Adult Recon<\/td><\/tr>
13<\/td>MSK Radiology\/Anesthesia<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\n\n\n
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Surgery Education Schedule<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Monday<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • Resident\/Medical Student Presentations,\u00a0<\/strong>6 to 6:30 a.m. weekly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Sports Journal Club,<\/strong>\u00a05 to 6 p.m. monthly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Resident Research Presentations,<\/strong>\u00a06 to 6:30 a.m. quarterly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Tuesday<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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    • Journal club,<\/strong>\u00a06to 8 p.m., bi-monthly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Wednesday<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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      • Spine Journal Club,<\/strong>\u00a07:30 to 8:30 a.m., weekly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Tumor Board,\u00a0<\/strong>7:30 to 8:30 a.m. second and fourth Wednesdays.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

        Thursday<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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        • Hand Rounds\/Journal Club,\u00a0<\/strong>7 to 8 a.m., weekly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

          Friday<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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          • Fracture Conference,\u00a0<\/strong>5:45 to 7 a.m., weekly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Grand Rounds Lectures,<\/strong>\u00a07 to 9 a.m. weekly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Musculoskeletal Conference (Radiology),<\/strong>\u00a08 to 9 a.m. quarterly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Cast Clinic,\u00a0<\/strong>9 to 10 a.m., third Friday.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Adult Recon Conference,\u00a0<\/strong>9 to 10 a.m., first, second and fourth Fridays.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Anatomy Lab,<\/strong>\u00a01 to 4 p.m., monthly July through December.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

            Other<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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            • Morbidity & Mortality Conference,<\/strong>\u00a07 to 8 a.m., monthly with section meetings.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Sim Lab\/Intern Basic Skills,<\/strong>\u00a0variable, Friday afternoons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\n\n\n
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              Didactic Components<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

              The clinical experience will be supplemented by a structured didactic program comprised of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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              • Orthopedic Fracture Conference.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Orthopedic Book Review.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • OITE Review.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Morning Report.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • MSK Conference.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Anatomy Lab.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Tumor Board.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Journal Club.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Grand Rounds.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Morbidity and Mortality Conference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                See the rotation schedule, weekly events and didactic components of the Samaritan Orthopedic Surgery Residency Program. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":61899,"parent":10138,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","_shs_workflow_notes":"","_shs_exclude_from_navigation":true,"_shs_promote_article_on_blogs":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10144","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10144\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}