2025-2026 Massachusetts General Hospital Orthopedic Surgery Arthroplasty Research Year Fellowship
Massachusetts General Hospital Orthopedic Surgery Adult Reconstruction Research Fellowship (1 year)
Position: Orthopedic Surgery Adult Reconstruction (Arthroplasty) Research Fellow
Principal Investigators: Dr. Hany Bedair (Chief, Hip and Knee Replacement Service, MGH, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School) & Dr. Christopher Melnic (Hip and Knee Replacement Orthopedic Surgeon, MGH, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School)
Positions: 2
Duration: 1 year
When: June 2025 - June 2026
Who: US medical students between M3 and M4 interested in Orthopedic Surgery. Only USA students will be considered (we are unable to support visa requirements)
Where: Massachusetts General Hospital and Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Department of Orthopedics
Salary: Paid
Dr. Bedair and Dr. Melnic are seeking applications from highly motivated and highly organized medical students interested in orthopedic surgery residency for a twelve-month research fellowship between their third and fourth years of medical school. Dr. Bedair and Dr. Melnic are surgeons of the renowned Arthroplasty Division at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston, MA, as well as faculty at Harvard Medical School.
The most recently matched alumna of this research year fellowship was first author on a project that won the prestigious 2023 AAHKS Surgical Techniques & Technologies Award and matched in Orthopedic Surgery Residency at UCLA. Other recent alumni of the fellowship have matched into orthopedic surgery at University of Pennsylvania, and Rutgers.
Research fellows will work closely with residents, fellows, and faculty at MGH as well as multicenter studies with NYU and Rothman Orthopaedics. During this one-year research period, fellows will have research access to multi-institutional arthroplasty registries of clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness data. They will design and coordinate research projects, collect and analyze data, and write arthroplasty manuscripts and book chapters. Most recent students will finish with 15+ manuscripts, several as first author, as well as poster and podium presentations at international orthopedic conferences: AAOS & AAHKS.
Dr. Bedair and Dr. Melnic will be hiring two medical students for this 2025-2026 Research Fellowship. The two medical students will work in conjunction and collaborate together.
Qualities of Ideal Candidates Would Include:
- Proficiency with Statistical Analysis (R, SPSS, other)
- Experience with Clinical Outcomes Research
- Familiarity with SQL Coding
Current Areas of Active Research:
- Total Joint Arthroplasty Costs & Cost-Effectiveness
- Value-Based Health Care
- Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)
- Minimal Clinically Important Difference (MCID)
- Time to Minimal Clinically Important Difference
- Patient Acceptable Symptom State
- Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty
- Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty
Interested candidates should send the following to the current research fellow, Nicholas Sauder, at
[email protected]:
Subject line: 2025-2026 MGH Research Fellowship - Last Name, First Name
- CV
- USMLE Step I/II Score Report (Step II if available)
- Brief Cover Letter detailing interest in the position
- Reference Letter
- Preferred start date
Applicants are reviewed on a rolling basis.
