Education Schedule
"Prayers"
The clinical fellow is responsible for didactic presentations to the pediatric orthopaedic residents and other house-staff members.
To this end, two to three mornings (6:30 am to 7:30 am) per week are devoted to lecture / review of the syllabus and slide set "Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery" authored by Alvin H. Crawford, MD, FRCS.
These particular morning conferences have been traditionally referred to as "prayers" and it is the clinical fellow's responsibility to conduct / supervise prayers on each of these particular days.
Pediatrics House-Staff Lecture
The clinical fellow is responsible for presenting a minimum of six didactic lectures to the Pediatrics House-Staff of Children's Hospital Medical Center.
Topics and dates of presentation are to be arranged by the, fellow by contacting the Pediatrics Chief Residents during July or August -- at the beginning of the fellowship year.
Regularly Scheduled Attending Lectures / Didactics
The pediatric orthopaedic full-time faculty gives at least two formal lectures to the fellows each week. These regularly scheduled lectures are two times per week (6:30 am to 7:30 am).
Topics are posted on the monthly education calendar. In addition to this, Pediatric Orthopaedic Journal Club and Musculoskeletal Radiology Conference are held once each month.
Visiting Professors
Two visiting professorships are conducted each year at Cincinnati Children's:
- A "Hip Day" Visiting Professor each spring
- A "Hand Day" Visiting Professor each summer
In addition, visiting professor presentations occur on a monthly basis through the University of Cincinnati Department of Orthopaedic Surgery (six of whom are guests of the department of Orthopaedics at Cincinnati Children's).
Problem Conference
Problem conference represents an outstanding clinical teaching conference with live patient presentations, and is conducted every Wednesday morning from 8:30 am to 10:00 am.
Orthopaedic morbidity and mortality cases are presented by the chief orthopaedic resident and discussed at the beginning of this conference each week.
Following this discussion patients are presented and physical examinations performed by orthopaedic residents and viewed by the audience of faculty members and nurses.
Pertinent x-rays are then reviewed by residents, fellows, and attendings. The clinical fellow is then asked to offer their treatment plan for the patient in a public forum.
Faculty members then each offer their opinions and supply feedback to the fellow.
This conference is aimed at training the fellow to prioritize and synthesize clinical information for the purpose of developing rational and literature supported treatment plans.
Monday Night Conference
Monday Night Conference (7 pm to 10 pm) represents a weekly orthopaedic x-ray conference conducted by the entire full-time pediatric orthopaedic faculty. T
his conference provides a private forum for discussion of difficult cases, diagnostic dilemmas, and orthopaedic morbidity and mortality.
The fellow is expected to not only use this conference to more fully understand the decision-making process utilized by faculty members in selecting various treatment plans, but to also present interesting and challenging cases encountered during the previous week.
Wednesday Morning Conference
Each Wednesday morning two conferences are conducted by the University of Cincinnati Department of Orthopaedic Surgery.
Trauma Conference is held from 6:30 am to 7:15 am and covers the full spectrum of adult and pediatric orthopaedic trauma topics. The first Wednesday of each month is devoted completely to pediatric orthopaedic trauma.
Grand rounds are then held from 7:15 am to 8:15 am. The clinical fellow is required to attend all pediatric orthopaedic related Wednesday morning conferences and is encouraged to attend the adult-focused conferences, as well.
