Pediatric Orthopaedic Resident Training
Regular pediatric orthopaedic rotations at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center are offered are as follows: January to March, April to June, July to September and October to December. Free lodging is given to resident rotators which includes all utilities, high-speed internet, cable, free parking, laundry facilities and a five minute drive from the hospital. There are many amenities to being in the Cincinnati area also.
Residents receive a series of structured didactics as well as routine Grand Rounds with pediatric subspecialty lectures by Alvin H. Crawford, MD, FACS, visiting professor events, Journal Club, weekly pre/post-op and problem conferences. Residents are also invited to attend local osteopathic meetings.
You can download a sample schedule of resident didactic lectures in portable document format (.pdf).
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Each resident is strongly encouraged to pursue a research project in some capacity depending on the length of stay. We have a research coordinator available to meet your needs and help you experience the satisfaction of academia accomplishments.
Upon arrival, residents receive a free copy of these hardbound books: Skeletal Trauma in Children by Green and Swiontkowski, Lovell and Winter's No.6, 3 Volume, Pediatric Orthopaedics with Atlas and Rockwood and Wilkins' Fractures in Children.
Our team includes six faculty members who are full-time Orthopaedic physicians, a robust research team and five other physicians serve as a nuclear faculty, seeing patients in general, conducting specialty clinics and assisting with the training of orthopaedic residents.
Feedback on Pediatric Orthopaedic Resident Training Experience
Online evaluations of the rotation and attendings are required as well as a written final examination and exit interview with Dr. Mehlman. Here are a few anonymous responses from the rotation evaluations:
- "Case volume is about average, however many of the attendings are great about teaching and allowing residents to particpate in the procedures."
- "Every physician I worked with was very willing to provide hands on experience in the OR; they continued to teach without turning you into a bystander."
- "I felt like I was given autonomy and afforded plenty of opportunity to grow clinically in the operating room. My confidence has grown exponentially."
- "Chief resident has ability to participate in cases needed to round out their individual resident experience."
- "Doctors here allowed residents far more freedom and education in the OR than my previous experiences."
- "I feel it was an above average experience with regard to pediatric trauma. My case volume has been substaintial. I have had significant OR experience with several well trained, vastly experienced surgeons. I have been allowed to perform major portions of procedures, significantly improving my technical skills and knowledge of these procedures."
| What Clint Basener, DO, PGY4 from Oklahoma University Medical Center, Tulsa, OK, a six-month rotator in 2007 had to say about his residency experience: |
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 | "What impresses me most is the knowledge shared by the attendings, the ability to cross-cover cases, the volume of patients seen, and the amount of published research from the faculty. Being exposed to the diverse pathologies treated here and the opportunity to work with many physicians are strong assets for my future as an orthopaedist." |
