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Teaching Conferences

Each affiliated hospital maintains a regular series of teaching conferences. The conference schedules are designed to maximize resident education considering the unique opportunities, daily schedules and educational priorities of each institution. This approach additionally minimizes travel between sites and allows residents to participate in a diverse didactic curriculum that is delivered daily with minimal interference with clinical education.

Teaching in the conferences follows the Socratic method, allowing residents and faculty to interact in an engaging learning environment. The majority of the lectures are faculty-led, with resident involvement, and frequently incorporate case presentations, recent research, and review questions. Subspecialty focused surgical labs and journal clubs are planned concurrently with relevant didactics to further reinforce critical principles. The department-wide grand rounds is held weekly and hosts a number of endowed visiting professors from across the world, in addition to a section of faculty lectures.

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

  • Fracture Review Conference (Monday)
  • Trauma Didactics Weekly (Wednesday)
  • Department-Wide Grand Rounds Weekly (Wednesday)
  • The Case Orthopaedic Review (Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday)
    A Subspecialty-Based Curriculum for the Orthopaedic Surgery Resident. 9 subspecialty blocks (Pediatrics, Tumor, Basic Science, OITE Review, Joints, Foot & Ankle, Hand, Sports, Elbow & Shoulder, and Spine) are covered throughout the year in hour-long didactic sessions three days each week. Didactics are tailored for board review with incorporation of case presentations and board review questions.

MetroHealth Medical Center

  • Fracture Review Conference Daily
  • Department-Wide Grand Rounds (Tuesday)
  • Indications Conference (Tuesday)
  • Trauma-focused Journal Club (Thursday)

Louis Stokes VA Medical Center

  • Indications Conference (Monday)
  • Department-Wide Grand Rounds (Wednesday)

Journal Club

The ability to critically analyze orthopaedic literature is a vital skill required to becoming a well-rounded orthopaedic surgeon. Each month, a Journal Club meeting is hosted by one of the faculty members. Each meeting is focused on a particular subspeciality reviewing both classic landmark articles and modern studies with profound outcomes. Residents are responsible for presenting the articles and lead thought provoking discussion among their peers and attendings reviewing both practice management and future direction of orthopaedic practice and research.

Courses

Resident course participation and tuition are covered for the following courses:

  • PGY-1: Akron Children's Hospital Annual Pediatric Orthopedic Resident Review Course
  • PGY-2: AO Basics
  • PGY-4: Summa Health Hospital Orthopaedic Oncology Review Course
  • PGY-4: AAOS Annual Meeting

Additionally, the program will assist with covering travel expenses for residents with podium presentations at regional and national meetings.

Education Fund

The resident education fund helps residents to pay for other education expenses, such as review courses, textbooks, Orthobullets subscriptions, travel electives, surgical loupes and lead. Each resident is allotted $1,000 per year that is renewed annually.