Im currently a senior resident at case western. Some of our applicants asked during the recent interviews for us to update information about our program on this website as the current info is outdated in the review section. If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask.
Our residency program is one of the few programs in the country that is piloting the new intern year consisting of 6 months of dedicated orthopaedics. During that year you also do plastic surgery, radiology, gen surg trauma, neurosurgery, SICU, and a dedicated month where you are freed from clinical responsibility and do anatomy.
PGY 2 now consists of 2 months of sports, 4 months of trauma/joints/sports at the county hospital/level I adult trauma center, 2 months spine, 2 months peds, 2 months night-float at UH hospital (level I peds trauma and level nothing adult)
pgy 3 is 2 months of joints, 4 months of VA, 2 months hand, 2 months foot and ankle, 2 months trauma/joints/sports at the county hospital
pgy 4 is 2 months hand at the county hospital, 2 months as joints chief, 2 months spine chief, 2 months tumor, 2 months peds chief, 2 months sports chief
pgy 5 is split between the va, county hospital, and UH in 4 month blocks
Questions arose about our sports experience. Dr. Michael Salata has been with us for 2-3 years (fellowship at rush) and his main focus is hip arthroscopy. He also does a lot of shoulder (instability, RTC) and knee (acl, fulkerson, ACI, PLC recon, etc.) We have also added Dr. Robert Gillespie (fellowship at jefferson) who practices shoulder and elbow surgery (shoulder arthroplasty, instability, rtc, elbow arthroscopy/arthroplasty/recon). This is in addition to Dr. Goodfellow, Victoroff, Wilber.
Our staff is very dedicated to our education. The senior residents also play a very important role in educating our junior residents both in the operating room, during educational conferences, and on-call. We all appreciate how our predecessors had the patience to teach us when we were junior residents and we all continue in that tradition giving our juniors a lot of autonomy in the OR and ER.
I feel very fortunate to have been part of this residency and highly recommend it to anyone. Feel free to PM me or post here with any questions about the program.
