Residency Program
Offers a Balance Between Learning
and Experience
The Campbell Foundation-University of Tennessee orthopaedic residency
program offers a careful balance between academic and theoretical learning and
practical experience.
Residents in the program participate in rotations in general orthopaedics,
pediatric orthopaedics, trauma, sports medicine, hand, foot and ankle, spine,
adult reconstructive surgery, anatomy and pathology, orthopaedic oncology, and
total joint.
During each rotation, residents spend approximately 50 percent of their
time in clinical activities and 50 percent in surgical duties, a practice that
allows residents to experience the continuity of patient care from initial exam
and evaluation, through surgical or non-surgical treatment and post-operative
rehabilitation.
Residents are instructed and mentored by faculty members from the Campbell
Clinic staff who have interest and training in the rotation subspecialty. Other
hallmarks of the Campbell Foundation-University of Tennessee orthopaedic
residency program include:
- Residents experience a graduated exposure to surgical techniques
through rotations in the various orthopaedic services.
- Residents are expected to master the cognitive and technical aspects of
each rotation to allow progressive assumption of responsibility for more
challenging diagnostic and treatment decisions, as well as more complex
operative procedures.
- Each rotation features clearly-defined objectives and timely
evaluations.
- In each rotation, residents are exposed to a busy clinical practice and
frequent specialty-based journal clubs from which they gain scientific
knowledge applicable to clinical and surgical situations.
- Interpersonal and communication skills and professionalism are enforced
by one-on-one interaction with faculty members who instruct, serve as role
models, and evaluate each resident's professional behavior and ability to
communicate with patients of all ages and circumstances.
- Supervision and instruction of junior residents by senior residents
also helps develop communication and administrative skills.
Rotations
The educational goals of our program focus on the logical progression of
knowledge, experience, and responsibility for each resident. Each rotation at
each institution is designed to provide opportunities for increasing clinical
and surgical responsibilities for the resident depending on the level of
training and progression of his or her clinical and surgical skills as
demonstrated by evaluation by faculty members, oral examinations, and the annual
OITE.
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