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. Two hours of formal conferences are held each Friday morning alternating between St. Francis and Wesley Hospitals. These conferences include basic science, clinical science and related topics. Formal exercises are conducted weekly over several months of the year in the motor skills laboratories. Smaller conferences for residents on specific services e.g. pediatrics, hand, spine etc. are also held regularly. Special sessions are conducted for OITE preparation and OITE review. (Residents are expected to score in the 50th percentile or better in the examination). Fracture Conferences are held for one hour, at noon, four days a week and a brief Chief Resident's conference is held daily at each hospital.

Each of the four first-year residents spends a three-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, as is a Classic Literature Review. 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.

Last Modified: October 18, 2007