On-call duty will occur approximately every fourth night, depending upon the number of residents available and the hospital to which a resident is assigned.

Faculty

Robert E. Atkinson, M.D., Associate Professor of Surgery, is the Program Director of the University of Hawaii Orthopaedic Residency Program and Chief of the Division of Orthopaedics.

The teaching faculty consists of multi disciplinary faculty members from the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine as well as board certified and board qualified orthopaedic physicians in the community and teaching hospitals. Subspecialty interests include hand surgery, microsurgery, total joints, sports medicine, spine, trauma, pediatrics, and tumors. In addition, the education program is supplemented by visiting professors from the Pacific and the U.S. Mainland. Faculty members are actively engaged in education endeavors through didactic lectures and teaching sessions, including journal clubs, basic science lectures, clinical correlation conferences, and outpatient and operating room experience. Both residents and faculty are actively engaged in teaching junior residents and medical students on a regular basis.

Continuing Education

Educational conferences include orthopaedic basic and clinical sciences are presented as didactic lectures, seminars, conferences and rounds on weekly basis. The format and structure of the subjects presented build upon, interrelate, and reinforce basic orthopaedic principles and concepts. A clinical correlations conference, held weekly, links the "basic sciences" to the "clinical sciences" in a practical manner as applied to orthopaedic practice. Eight sessions, annually, are devoted to covering the concepts and philosophies of orthopaedic pathology.

Other conferences and meeting include a fracture/trauma conference which emphasizes the biomechanics and classification of fracture patterns. A monthly multi disciplinary trauma conference deals with interdisciplinary problems related to orthopaedic trauma and is directed by the Trauma Service attending physicians. The morbidity and mortality conference, presented by the Chief Resident, discusses all complications, infections, and mortalities occurring on the orthopaedic service. Rehabilitation rounds are conducted in the occupational therapy and physical therapy areas of the Queen's Medical Center by a physiatrist and his/her staff. Weekly grand rounds conference deals with current orthopaedic topics and brings together the orthopaedic residents, academic and community orthopaedic staff. Pediatric grand rounds are held weekly at Shriners Hospital dealing with current pediatric orthopaedic topics. A monthly skills lab is designed to help residents with their physical exam, instrument handling, arthroscopy and total joint preoperative planning.

Journal Club gives the residents an opportunity to discuss current orthopaedic literature with staff supervision. Current issues of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Journal of Orthpaedic Trauma, American Journal of Sports Medicine, Spine and Hand Journals are used for these sessions. In addition, residents will review selected Instructional Course Lectures published by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery.

Orthopaedic residents in their PGY2 through PGY5 years have the opportunity to attend educational conferences on the mainland that are considered to be beneficial to their learning experience. Expenses for these trips are covered by program funds. These
arrangements are subject to change at the discretion of the Program Director.