Six Points of Light for the Akron General Medical Center Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program
1. Basic science and clinical tumor pathology is an automatic part of the program with our Chairman being an orthopaedic oncology specialist.
2. We have a large and vast pediatric experience with one of America's largest children's hospitals. This includes both the bread and butter type fracture experience as well as specialty work such as scoliosis, CP and SCFE.
3. We have a good research opportunity with both clinical and basic science type projects. Residents may present their projects at national meetings, if accepted.
4. Office rotations in the real world of private practice. How to run a practice, from the clinical, business and personnel standpoints.
5. A faculty of teachers that rivals any university program. Ninety-five percent are fellowship trained in some subspecialty area. (All subspecialties are represented. Outstanding, defined rotations in hand, children's orthopaedics with large numbers of fellowship trained specialists.)
6. No fellows in this program. We are 100% resident-oriented for our teaching and training.
This five-year, postgraduate training program is fully accredited by the RRC (ABOS & ACGME). The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery offers three first-year positions to senior medical students via the NRMP process.
Our residents benefit from training that is based on an integral framework of patient care, education and research. They are supervised by an outstanding clinical faculty that is committed to education and fellowship-trained in all Orthopaedic subspecialties.
As a Level I trauma center, regional tertiary referral center and community hospital, Akron General offers residents the opportunity to work with patients from the entire spectrum of musculoskeletal diseases and trauma. Residents will participate in all aspects of patient care, under faculty supervision at different levels of responsibility. Another benefit of residency at Akron General is the relationship we've fostered with Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron - providing an excellent experience for residents interested in Pediatric Orthopaedics.
Daily education conferences include a complete overview of Orthopaedic Surgery as part of a yearly curriculum. Clinical and basic science faculty present a weekly basic science conference as part of a two-year curriculum. Special conferences include weekly sessions covering x-ray and trauma.
An anatomy conference includes presentations on surgical approaches to treatment and cadaver dissection. Residents will also have the opportunity to attend hands-on conferences throughout the year that include equipment, such as saw bones and joint implants.
Residents and attending physicians also participate in a monthly evening Journal Club. This group reviews current and classic articles emphasizing scientific design, analysis methods and results.
All residents attend two out-of-town conferences per year. Each resident attends a required course meeting such as: PGYII- AO course, PGY III- Orthotic/Prosthetics course, PGY IV- Comprehensive Joint Arthroplasty course, PGY V-AAOS and Ortho Review course. All meetings are department funded and each resident chooses an elective course meeting per year.
Research is an important aspect of orthopaedic training. All residents participate in at least one project during their training period and are encouraged to present research papers at national meetings. Time, funding, space and faculty support is provided.
Graduates of program have a 100% pass rate on ABOS certifying board exams. Akron General Orthopaedic residents have scored, as a group, above the 90th percentile, with an average of 96%, for the past nine years on the annual OITE in-training exam by AAOS. In 2001, they scored in the 100th percentile and were the number one program in the country.
Orthopaedic graduates are appointed to post-residency fellowships and have been accepted into fellowships in all specialties across the country.
