Orthopaedic Resident Remediation

Orthopaedic resident-selection criteria.

Orthopaedic Resident Preparation and Confidence in Treating On-Field Injuries

BACKGROUND Orthopaedic surgery residents may cover athletic events, although the training provided to prepare residents for this role and oversight from attending physicians during these activities is not well understood. PURPOSE To survey orthopaedic residents about the training provided by their residency program for on-field athletic coverage and to understand their levels of preparation f...

Surgical Simulation: Validating Methods to Improve Orthopaedic Resident Skills Competency

Surgical reconstruction of fractured extremities is a complex procedure that orthopaedic residents must master during training. Currently, training is based on an apprenticeship model, which while beneficial, is not uniform and does not provide any means to assess skills competency. Surgical simulation can help address shortcomings in the training model by providing residents opportunities to (...

The Value of Journal Clubs in Orthopaedic Resident Education

1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA The journal club is considered a standard of medical education across many institutions and fields of medicine. Our hypothesis is that the systematic evaluation and/or critical discussion of articles in journal club can change resident perception of the articles and topics examined. We performed a pilot study in w...

Assessment of moral reasoning skills in the orthopaedic surgery resident applicant.

BACKGROUND Assessing orthopaedic surgery residency applicants is a complex process. One important applicant characteristic not commonly measured during the interview process is moral behavior, a key component of the guidelines of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education for professionalism competency. We sought to determine whether a relationship exists between the results of re...