Residency Teaching Resources
In addition to daily contact with attendings and more senior residents on rounds, in the clinics and in the operating rooms, residents participate in a formal program of conferences and lectures. An hour of CME accredited Grand Rounds conference is held each Friday morning alternating between St. Francis and Wesley Hospitals. This conference is intended to provide a forum for discussion of current topics relevant to the surgical subspecialty of orthopaedics. Attendance is mandatory by all orthopaedic residents and it is a required portion of the residency training. We make every effort to create a subspecialty-oriented approach to these topics on a rotating monthly basis. To provide a stimulating and current conference a visiting Grand Rounds speaker will be scheduled on a monthly basis.
The Orthopaedic Seminar Conference is intended to provide the resident with basic information related to specific orthopaedic diseases. The conference will be attended by all orthopaedic residents and is a required portion of their residency training. This particular conference is intended to be staffed by at least one orthopaedic attending with expertise in the topic being discussed. This conference will generally be presented by an orthopaedic resident and will last one hour. The recommended format for the conference will be a formal 40-45 minute presentation followed by a 15-20 minute discussion period. The faculty in attendance will be provided relevant OITE type questions to be used for this discussion period. This conference occurs on Mondays from 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. at the St. Francis Campus. Also, the case of the week will be presented by the first year resident that is on the Basic Science rotation at the beginning of the conference.
Fracture Conference is scheduled once per week at each campus. This conference provides an opportunity to present cases for discussion to residents and attending staff. All residents are to attend these conferences unless they are with their attending in the operating room or clinic. The conference consists of cases of fracture management, which have been treated and have sufficient follow-up to provide a point for discussion. These topics may be related to treatment outcomes, complications, difficult case management and/or fracture management. Whatever the topic selected, the case in question should have sufficient follow-up to provide support for the topic being presented. These conferences can be topically oriented or random and this will be left to the judgment of the Chief Resident.
Each of the four first-year residents spends a two-month block of time on Basic Sciences consisting of anatomy, pathology and biomechanics. Each resident has a cadaver to dissect and demonstrates his dissection for one quarter of the other residents and faculty monitor once weekly. The Basic Science resident is also responsible for setting up a pathology case of the week with slides and x-rays and leading the discussion of these cases the following week. Considerable time is spent reviewing slides with the pathology staff and working out biomechanics exercises in the O.R.I.
A multidisciplinary trauma conference is held monthly with the general surgeons and an orthopaedic problem conference with case presentations by faculty and members of the orthopaedic community is also presented on a monthly basis. An Indications Conference is held at the Wichita Veterans Administration Medical Center on a weekly basis. Journal Club is held monthly within the regular conference format. Primary consideration will be given to the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, however, at the discretion of Dr. James Gluck; other pertinent orthopaedic journals will be utilized from time to time.
Guest lecturers are invited on a frequent basis, and special lectureships such as the Rombold Lectureship in the Spring and Fall Visiting Professor are exciting events as is the recently inaugurated Charles Henning Memorial Lectureship.
Surgical Facilities and Hospitals
- St. Francis Hospital – Level 1 Trauma Center
- Wesley Hospital – Level 1 Trauma Center
- Kansas Surgery and Recovery Center
- Kansas Orthopaedic Center
- Wichita Clinic Surgery Center
- Cypress Surgery Center
- VA Hospital
- St. Louis Shriner’s Hospital
