Departments of Instruction

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

The department seeks to provide training for medical students and residents in the field of orthopaedics. The training program incorporates scheduled rotations at several area institutions affiliated with the program for the purpose of education. These institutions include Memorial Hermann  – Texas Medical Center, and Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital.
 
Orthopaedic training opportunities exist for fourth-year medical students as a four-week clinical rotation.  Operative and non-operative experiences are available as the students rotate through the different attendings’ offices and the surgical suites, and they also participate in patient care on the floors. 

Orthopaedic residents participate in a five-year residency program.  The first year is under the faculty’s direct supervision and includes rotations in general surgery, ICU, plastics/burns, trauma, anesthesiology, radiology, rheumatology, in addition to three months in orthopaedics.  The remaining four years are spent in the different sub-specialties of orthopaedics—foot and ankle, general orthopaedics, hand/upper extremity, pediatrics, spine, sports medicine, total joints, and trauma.  The didactic/educational program includes weekly conferences covering all of the above sub-specialties, as well as anatomy, basic science, wet labs, oncology, research, and grand rounds.