Every weekday morning from 7 to 7:30 a.m., all faculty members and residents meet in the conference room. The junior resident on-call presents the emergency room cases from the evening before. This serves as quality control as well as an educational experience for residents. After the emergency room review, faculty members are required to present their operative cases for the day. Faculty may be called upon to defend their cases in order to teach and explain their operative indications. Following the faculty presentation, residents show radiographs of patients who were operated on the day before so that all individuals can see some of the technical results.

We have Grand Rounds on Wednesday mornings following the didactic conference. Since we are located in a metropolitan area with four other academic medical institutions, we have many opportunities for speakers from other institutions to give presentations to further diversify the resident educational experience.

A clinical conference is scheduled four times a week at 6:15 a.m. so as not to conflict with clinical affairs and ensure maximal attendance. This monthly rotating conference includes: pediatric orthopaedics, trauma, basic science, quality assurance, sports medicine, adult reconstruction, spine as well as hand and upper-extremity. Once a week, a faculty member administers an indications conference which is an in-depth discussion of surgical indications for musculoskeletal diseases. Finally, each service has its own clinical conference with residents and fellows who are rotating on that service.

For this month's conference schedule, please click here.