Didactics

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Teaching seminars are mandatory for all orthopaedics and sports medicine residents and cover a variety of topics including basic science related to orthopaedic problems, clinical orthopaedic conferences (case presentations and lecturers) and presentations from inter-related clinical specialties (e.g., neurosurgery, general surgery, trauma, infectious disease Rheumatology, radiology, etc.). These are rotated on a regular basis through the month. Residents help coordinate the conferences and teaching materials. The core didactic lecture series, grand rounds and mortality and morbidity conferences are held on Friday mornings for the research residents, fellows and graduate students at University of South Florida, Shriners Hospital Orthopaedic Conference room.

A monthly Journal club (reviewing primarily JBJS) is held the third Thursday of each month for all the residents. It is hosted by one of the faculty members. Separate Journal clubs are held regularly by many of the other subspecialty services. These are attended by residents on that particular rotation. The purpose of journal clubs is to increase awareness of current and classical articles in orthopaedics and specialty areas.

The University Community Hospital hosts a bi-monthly conference for general orthopaedics, sports medicine, total joints and spine conferences to review cases outside of the core didactic lecture series.

The trauma service, which is staffed by the majority of residents assigned to Lakeland Regional Medical Center/Watson Clinic LLP, has regular rounds (patient and x-ray). All operative cases are discussed on Tuesday and Thursday with the faculty before the operating schedule begins. Additionally, weekly fracture conferences are held from 7:00-8:00 AM, where residents present interesting cases. There is a monthly trauma lecture case presentation, interdisciplinary trauma conference, general trauma literature review and a monthly mortality and morbidity conference where both the general surgery and orthopaedic trauma services discuss shared patients from both a general surgery and orthopaedic surgery viewpoint.

The oncology service, which is hosted by Moffitt Cancer Center, consists of six weeks of spine oncology and three months of orthopedic oncology, offer bi-weekly orthopaedic oncology radiology and pathology case study sessions. In addition they meet weekly to discuss spine and sarcoma (musculoskeletal oncology) tumor cases, presented in a multidisciplinary fashion with input from the radiologist, pathologist, surgeons, medical oncologists and radiation therapist.

Shriners Hospitals for Children has a number of conferences headed by Harry Kim, MD, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Orthopaedics, and other full-time, clinical faculty. Residents will experience three months of rotations and three months of research here during their PGY 3 year. The resident will experience three more months of pediatrics during their PGY 4 year at All Childrens Hospital. Daily rounds are made with the faculty in the morning. Both institutions offer a weekly indications conference, which is staffed by a number of community physicians who volunteer their time. Interesting patients and x-rays are presented by the residents to the faculty in attendance, discussed by the residents and faculty, and appropriate treatment selected. There are daily specialty clinics staffed by faculty with interest in the specific disorder (e.g., scoliosis, cerebral palsy, myelodysplasia, muscular dystrophy, etc.).