Dear Unmatched 2006 applicants:
For the past three decades, DMC and WSU (Detroit Medical Center and Wayne State University) have co-sponsored a well-respected Orthopaedic residency. This year, the DMC and WSU were not able to agree on issues of service versus resources, so the DMC-WSU Program is closing as of 06/30/06.*
The DMC has made an application to the Orthopaedic RRC (Residency Review Committee of the ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education)) to start a new Orthopaedic Program on 07/01/07. The DMC-sponsored proposed Program has a more-comprehensive complement of faculty than the closing Program did. ** The Program now closing has lost faculty over the past five years and has not been able to recruit any replacements.
I hope, and I have good reason to expect, that the proposed DMC Program WILL be certified to open 07/01/07. If so, this new DMC Program expects to recruit a PG-1 class (of six trainees) to start 07/01/07. BUT, we would also like to recruit a class of PG-2s (of six trainees), to start as PG-2s on 07/01/07, the PG-2s would need to have done an internship in 2006-2007 which is fully-compliant, or nearly-fully-compliant, with the Orthopaedic RRC requirements. Those requirements are repeated in the next paragraph:
?In order to meet [required] goals, the PGY-1 year must include a minimum of six months of structured education in surgery, to include multi-system trauma, plastic surgery/burn care, intensive care, and vascular surgery; a minimum of one month of structured education in at least three of the following]http://www.acgme.org[/url], under ?residency review committee.?
PG-1s in 2006-2007 who want to be PG-2s in our Program in 2007-2008, should come as close as possible to these required rotations. Perfection is NOT required, but closer is better. Please note that PG-2s starting on 07/01/07 will have a chance to do complex cases sooner than in any other residency program.
I am Ralph B Blasier, MD,
Professor of Orthopaedic Surery at WSU,
and employee of DMC
(two hats!).
Feel free to Google me, if you want to.
* I will send you a 13-sentence summary of what I think went wrong between DMC and WSU if you ask me to.
** I will send you a brochure summarizing the proposed new DMC Program if you ask me to.
The purpose of this message is to inform unmatched 2006-2007 interns what they can do to get a position in our new 2007 Program.
Feel free to email me any time about anything.
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For the past three decades, DMC and WSU (Detroit Medical Center and Wayne State University) have co-sponsored a well-respected Orthopaedic residency. This year, the DMC and WSU were not able to agree on issues of service versus resources, so the DMC-WSU Program is closing as of 06/30/06.*
The DMC has made an application to the Orthopaedic RRC (Residency Review Committee of the ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education)) to start a new Orthopaedic Program on 07/01/07. The DMC-sponsored proposed Program has a more-comprehensive complement of faculty than the closing Program did. ** The Program now closing has lost faculty over the past five years and has not been able to recruit any replacements.
I hope, and I have good reason to expect, that the proposed DMC Program WILL be certified to open 07/01/07. If so, this new DMC Program expects to recruit a PG-1 class (of six trainees) to start 07/01/07. BUT, we would also like to recruit a class of PG-2s (of six trainees), to start as PG-2s on 07/01/07, the PG-2s would need to have done an internship in 2006-2007 which is fully-compliant, or nearly-fully-compliant, with the Orthopaedic RRC requirements. Those requirements are repeated in the next paragraph:
?In order to meet [required] goals, the PGY-1 year must include a minimum of six months of structured education in surgery, to include multi-system trauma, plastic surgery/burn care, intensive care, and vascular surgery; a minimum of one month of structured education in at least three of the following]http://www.acgme.org[/url], under ?residency review committee.?
PG-1s in 2006-2007 who want to be PG-2s in our Program in 2007-2008, should come as close as possible to these required rotations. Perfection is NOT required, but closer is better. Please note that PG-2s starting on 07/01/07 will have a chance to do complex cases sooner than in any other residency program.
I am Ralph B Blasier, MD,
Professor of Orthopaedic Surery at WSU,
and employee of DMC
(two hats!).
Feel free to Google me, if you want to.
* I will send you a 13-sentence summary of what I think went wrong between DMC and WSU if you ask me to.
** I will send you a brochure summarizing the proposed new DMC Program if you ask me to.
The purpose of this message is to inform unmatched 2006-2007 interns what they can do to get a position in our new 2007 Program.
Feel free to email me any time about anything.
11111