Orthopedic Surgery Residency Detail

Overview

The Department of Orthopedic Surgery residency program is a five-year program that revolves around a vibrant medical community in downtown Louisville, KY. We offer a well-rounded exposure to all subspecialties of orthopedics, a strong educational curriculum and a comprehensive surgical experience. Residents have graduated responsibility with a broad and early operative experience and robust surgical volume at an Academic Level I Trauma Center. In addition to our stable and committed full-time faculty, we have numerous gratis clinical faculty who are dedicated to postgraduate medical education and offer our residents significant exposure to operative and non-operative subspecialty orthopedics in a private practice setting.

First and foremost, orthopedic residents help care for the more than 3,000 trauma admissions annually, providing complex fracture care as part of the region's only Level 1 Trauma Center at UofL Health-Hospital. Residents also spend time at the Norton Leatherman Spine Center, a nationally renowned center that attracts patients from around the region and country, giving residents a chance to experience both basic and extraordinarily complex pathology. The final downtown tertiary referral center is Norton Children’s Hospital, which now boasts four fellowship trained orthopedic surgeons. All within three blocks of each other, these centers of excellence deliver hands-on education and unique pathologies on a daily basis.

Outside of downtown, residents do spend some time at several community hospitals and private practices with a variety of fellowship trained physicians to learn both basic and complex foot and ankle surgery, reconstruction, arm and hand surgery, arthroscopy and joint preservation techniques. Working one on one with local physicians, education and technical skills are emphasized.

Education is our top priority and protected time for grand rounds, block conference, fracture conference, basic science review, OITE review, arthroscopy skills development and fresh tissue dissection is provided to residents. This ensures that residents graduate with both the technical skills and orthopedic knowledge to succeed in fellowship and beyond.