The program gives residents a broad exposure to musculoskeletal disease, with the goal being development of skills necessary to provide excellent patient care as practicing academic and/or community orthopaedic surgeons.

Affiliated hospitals

Residents encounter a full range of challenging adult and pediatric orthopaedic cases as they rotate through these hospitals:

UConn Health Center faculty
Hartford Hospital
Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center
Connecticut Children's Medical Center
The Hospital of Central Connecticut.

Curriculum

There is a strong experience in both operative and non-operative orthopaedic patient care including the PGY-1 year of general surgery which is under the direction of the orthopaedic program. In addition to the four hospital sites listed above, PGY-1 residents also rotate at The Hospital of Central Connecticut for general surgery and ICU experience.

The residents are sent to the AO Basic Principles and Techniques of Operative Fracture Management Course for Residents during their PGY-1 or PGY-2 year, the Boston Pathology Course during both their PGY-3 and PGY-5 years, the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons during their PGY-5 year, and the Maine Orthopaedic Surgery Board Review Course during their PGY-5 year when they are presenting their original research.

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Conferences & Lab

Conference: An open forum to discuss a selected evidence-based medicine article. Time is also set aside to discuss important issues related to the program.

Monthly Journal Club: Residents and faculty review articles from the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. The articles are selected by the chief resident.

Hartford Orthopaedic Forum: This monthly conference serves as Grand Rounds for the whole orthopaedic community and meets at a local country club. This forum provides residents exposure to leaders in orthopaedic surgery and to surgeons practicing in the surrounding community.

Anatomy Lab: Historically, residents complete a full-body dissection every other year. The PGY-1s get excellent anatomy review when they help teach the UConn School of Medicine anatomy course each fall.

Bioskills Lab: Some Friday mornings are spent in the Bioskills Laboratory. They have six full arthroscopy set-ups. A big screen in the room can project one of the arthroscopy cameras and it can also project from the operating rooms in the building.