Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Training Program
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James V. Luck, Jr., MD
Residency Program Director |
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Nelson SooHoo, MD
Associate Residency Program Director |
The UCLA/Orthopaedic Hospital Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and affiliated institutions offer an integrated five-year training program to orthopaedic residents providing training that covers all of the multi-subspecialty disciplines of orthopaedic surgery. The program includes a balance of clinical experience in adult reconstructive surgery, children's orthopaedics, trauma, surgery of the hand, sports medicine, metabolic bone disease, spinal reconstruction, and orthopaedic oncology, with continued integrated studies in basic science and research. The R1 year provides diversified surgical training and fulfills all ACGME requirements for this year including training in radiology, critical care, emergency medicine, and rheumatology.
The outpatient orthopaedic clinics have abundant and diverse clinical material with one- on- one faculty mentorship. Each subspecialty unit has a full-time faculty director and residents who are assigned to participate in patient care. Our program is designed to give graduated responsibility, allowing each resident to perform clinically and surgically according to his or her ability, including the responsibility of managing and educating residents and medical students of less experience.
The home base of the program is the Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital which has 266 beds, 40 of which are devoted to orthopaedics. The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center has 454 hospital beds; 26 of these are designated as orthopaedics/plastic. There are 30 additional orthopaedic beds at the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center and 60 beds at the Los Angeles Shriners Hospital for Children. Additionally, there is a full-service orthopaedic and trauma elective at Harbor/UCLA Medical Center. In 1998, UCLA entered a Strategic Alliance with the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital, which brings with it a rich tradition in pediatric orthopaedics, education and research. This alliance has led to the creation of our large, dedicated, and state-of-the-art orthopaedic research facility (the J. Vernon Luck, Sr., MD/Orthopaedic Hospital Research Center at UCLA). The department has more than thirty clinical faculty and over twenty dedicated research faculty, with a large cadre of voluntary clinical faculty that contribute to the education of our trainees.
Basic science study in orthopaedics is integrated throughout the entire curriculum with additional concentrated programs in anatomy, pathology, and biomechanics. A comprehensive core lecture series is given each Wednesday morning when residents have no clinical obligations, and each hospital and specialty area has a weekly conference. Following the core lecture series and the case review conference, Orthopaedic Grand Rounds are held on the first Wednesday morning of each month at 9:00am in the Orthopaedic Hospital Research Center at UCLA, room 154, and are open to all those interested in attending.
All residents have the opportunity to participate in clinical and/or laboratory investigations during their residency program. All residents are required to present their research at the UCLA/OH Grand Rounds and to Shriners Hospital, as well as prepare at least one manuscript worthy of publication in a refereed journal.
Within the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, there are bioengineers, molecular biologists, geneticists, specialists in tissue engineering, stem cell biologists, a kinesiologist, and computer experts to instruct and assist the residents in the preparation and analysis of their projects. Before the completion of the R2 year, two of the R2's are selected as research fellows who devote an additional year to intensive basic science and clinical research. We feel this gives those outstanding residents the unique opportunity of preparing themselves for a possible academic career. These research experiences have been highly productive resulting in multiple peer review publications.
Our goal is to provide our residents with a broad and diversified clinical and academic experience suited to individuals eager to become either academic orthopaedic surgeons or clinical leaders in the community. We strive to prepare our orthopaedic residents to be competent and comfortable in a general orthopaedic practice, while simultaneously providing a platform for the best possible subsequent fellowship training opportunities, when desired.
Block Schedule
Program by year: Please click here for block diagram.
PGY2: The residents spend 7 months at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center & Orthopaedic Hospital facilities with rotations on the spine, sports, oncology, and trauma services with 1 month of vacation. Four months are spent in pediatrics and pediatric trauma orthopaedics at the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital.
PGY3: The majority of the year is spent at UCLA with 2 months at the West LA Veterans Administration Hospital and 2 months at Orthopaedic Hospital. Rotations at UCLA include adult trauma, joints reconstruction, general orthopaedics, and basic science.
PGY4: There is a 4 month rotation in pediatric orthopaedics at the Los Angeles Shriners Hospital, 2 months at the West LA VA Hospital, and 5 months on rotations at UCLA and Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center & Orthopaedic Hospital facilities.
PGY5: In the senior resident year, the rotations include adult reconstruction, trauma, hand, and sports at UCLA, and adult reconstruction at the West LA VA as well as trauma at Harbor-UCLA Hospital.
Training Institutions
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Olive View-UCLA Medical Center
Orthopaedic Hospital
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital
Shriners Hospital for Children
West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Hospital
Application Process
Applicants for residency in orthopaedic surgery will be selected via the National Resident Matching Program. All applications are handled through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS). The program does not accept "outside" the match without prior approval from the ACGME. Individuals selected for this program will spend the R1 year in the Core Surgical Training Program of the Department of Surgery and, based on satisfactory performance, will proceed into the orthopaedic four-year program. Continuation in the Orthopaedic Hospital/UCLA Orthopaedic Residency Program is dependent on continued excellent performance and is assessed on a yearly basis. California law requires licensure by the State Medical Board of any individual who takes more than one year of housestaff training in the State. Outside employment is not permitted during the course of your surgical/orthopaedic training at UCLA.
For further information, please refer to www.medsch.ucla.edu/residencies OR http://www.gme.medsch.ucla.edu/
Program Requirements
In addition to your ERAS application, the following information is required:
- MCAT scores (may be included in your personal statement or emailed to orthoeducation@mednet.ucla.edu or faxed to (310) 825-1311 attn: Education Office.
- Four letters of recommendation, including one from your orthopaedic department chairman or program director.
Application Deadline
The deadline for submitting application material to UCLA is November 10, 2009
Interview Dates
Applicants are more likely to make intelligent choices of residency programs by personally inspecting each program. Similarly, the program is more likely to make an appropriate choice of residents with an interview. We have set three specific interview dates when clinical and teaching activities in the Department are cancelled. At that time, during a formal presentation of the organization, the philosophy and objectives of the training program are outlined for the applicant group. Meetings are set up where small groups of applicants will have the opportunity to tour the facilities and to discuss with junior and senior orthopaedic housestaff their experience in the program. Individual interviews will be scheduled for the applicants with our residents and full-time faculty who devote their day to this activity.
Invitations for interviews will be sent through ERAS. At that time, you will be asked to select your preferred interview date and we will make every effort to fulfill your request on a first-come-first-served basis.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Contact Information
Orthopaedic Surgery Education Office
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Room 76-143 CHS
10833 Le Conte Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Tel: (310) 825-6557
Fax: (310) 825-1311
email: orthoeducation@mednet.ucla.edu
www.ortho.ucla.edu
