Residency Information
Last updated Tuesday, December 04, 2007
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The Chief Resident's Banquet is a wonderful time for alumni to come back to Seattle to meet friends and wish the graduating residents a fond fairwell.
Dr. Frederick Matsen, Department Chairman stands with Dr. Emma Woodhouse and Dr. Ben DuBois at the Chief Residents' Banquet. Five years have passed quickly, but Dr. Woodhouse and Dubois will stay on at the UW and will participate in the Shoulder and Elbow fellowship under the direction of Drs. Matsen and Winston Warme.
Attendees at the Chief Resident's Banquet, June 2003 held at the Seattle Tennis Club.
2001 Orthopedic Residents (and families)
Picnic with 2002 Orthopedics residents
Dr. Howard Chansky, Chief of Service at Veterans' Administation Hospital congratulates Kevin Klineberg (R3) on being a new Dad! Being an Orthopedic resident and being a father will keep your life pretty busy!
Introduction
The Department of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine offers a broad-based residency program covering the full range of orthopedics and sports medicine. One of our residents, Addison Stone, has prepared a "resident's eye view" of the program. Click here to see it.
About the residency program
Eight residents for each of five years have the opportunity to work with over thirty full time faculty in this busy clinical and academic department. Our residency experience is entirely in Seattle, utilizing the first-rate facilities at Harborview Medical Center, Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, the Veteran's Medical Center, the University of Washington Medical Center, the University of Washington Sports Medicine Clinic and the Virginia Mason Medical Center. This year U.S. News and World Report designated the Orthopedic services at both Harborview and the University of Washington Medical Center as two of the best Orthopedic Services in the western half of the country.Program overview statement
The University of Washington Department of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine is one of the leading academic orthopedic departments in the United States. It ranks among the top four departments in terms of current NIH funding, is the only orthopedic department to have a VA Rehabilitation Research & Development Center of Excellence, and is the only department to have two medical centers (HMC and UWMC) consistently in the U.S. News and World Report’s Honor Roll.
Seven endowed research chairs and a research professorship nurture the scholarly activity of the Department . On this foundation, the Department offers the only academic residency program for our five-state area, which is one-quarter the landmass of the country. The UW Orthopedic Residency has graduated three current departmental chairs, international leaders in sports medicine, orthopedic traumatology, foot and ankle surgery, shoulder and elbow surgery, joint reconstruction, pediatric orthopedics, spine surgery and orthopedic research.
The clinical components of our residency are firmly routed in medical centers dedicated to teaching in the context of excellence in patient care. Harborview Medical Center is the region’s premier level one trauma center. It is also the site of the region’s premier foot and ankle program. The University of Washington Medical Center with its Roosevelt Bone and Joint Surgery Center is the region’s center of academic reconstructive orthopedic surgery. The Veteran’s Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System is the regional center of major joint reconstruction, spine surgery, hand surgery and tumor surgery for veterans. Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center is the site of the leading pediatric orthopedic program in the northwest. The Seattle Cancer Care Alliance is the home of one of the largest sarcoma programs in the country. Virginia Mason Medical Center provides the soundest academic approach of all the private medical centers in the region. On top of this foundation, our program is enjoying substantial growth. The new UW Sports Medicine Clinic, integrally situated within the athletic training complex and stadium, provides state-of-the-art, exclusive care to UW's 700 varsity student-athletes. In addition, it is the preeminent referral center for the University and greater-Seattle community and the only academic sports medicine program in the northwest. The new East Side Specialty Center provides clinic access to UW orthopedists for those individuals living on the east side of Lake Washington. The new Regional Hand Center at Roosevelt is prospering along with its immediately adjacent outpatient operating rooms. The Spine Surgery Center, a collaborative program with Neurosurgery, will soon open at the Roosevelt Bone and Joint Surgery Center. Our new relationship with Northwest Hospital has given birth to a large and growing program focused on pediatric hand deformities. Our new affiliation with Puget Sound Spine and Sports Medicine facilitates access for these highly selected patients to access the excellence offered by the UW. In the fall, the UWMC Surgical Pavilion will open creating opportunities for the ideal patient experience in ambulatory surgery.
This exciting clinical and scholarly environment enables us to attract and retain an outstanding academic faculty consisting of thirty-three full-time academic orthopedic surgeons and ten full-time PhD investigators along with ten full-time acting instructors. We plan to add five more full-time clinicians over the next five years.
Perhaps the most special element of the program is the profound partnership that exists between the residents and the faculty. Decisions regarding clinical rotations, research participation, didactics, lectureships and recruitments are made in collaboration. This dynamic approach to the evolution of the residency as the program grows will assure that we continue to train the orthopedic leaders of the future.
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