Curriculum

The Orthopaedic Residency Program seeks to prepare residents to become orthopaedic surgeons of the highest caliber by providing a rich educational experience in a variety of clinical settings. The three main program components - curriculum, research, and service - are structured to offer the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and clinical judgement needed for the practice of orthopaedic surgery.

Levels of Training

PGY I: The resident's first year of orthopaedic training is spent as a general surgery "internship" in the Surgical Residency Program at the John A. Burns School of Medicine. This year includes ten months of structured education in surgery to include multi system trauma, plastic surgery/burn care, intensive care, neurosurgery, rheumatology, anesthesiology, and vascular surgery. And finally, two months of orthopaedic surgery.

PGY II:The resident's second year of orthopaedic training includes twelve months of adult traumatic and reconstructive surgery at the Queen's Medical Center. The resident has on-call duty approximately every fourth night. PGY II residents work closely with the Chief Resident and the attending physicians.

PGY III: The resident's third year of orthopaedic training includes one month at Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific. This training involves rehabilitation as related to spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, stroke, amputation, and other neuromuscular conditions. A four month segment is spent at Tripler Army Medical Center where the resident is exposed to extensive outpatient orthopaedics, including fracture and trauma as well as experience in the microvascular laboratory. Three months of training are spent on the Total Joints Service and two months on research and/or elective rotations.

PGY IV:The resident's fourth year of orthopaedic training includes six months of pediatric orthopaedics at Shriners Hospitals for Children - Honolulu Unit and a six month sports medicine rotation under the direction of an attending physician.

PGY V: The resident's final year orthopaedic training, as Chief Resident, includes six months on the General Orthopaedic Service at the Queen's Medical Center and three months on both the Hand and Spine Services. The Chief Residents assume administration of specific program functions and total patient care responsibility for clinic patients under the direction of the Program Director.