Program Overview

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Pediatric Orthopedics Fellowship Program

The Pediatric Orthopedics Fellowship is a one-year program that provides comprehensive training in the clinical and surgical management of pediatric musculoskeletal disorders.

Program Overview

The program is based at Texas Children's Hospital, the largest pediatric hospital in the United States, offering an unmatched experience in patient care and research. Fellows will work under the supervision of 17 full-time pediatric orthopedists and have the opportunity to rotate through various services, including hip, spine, lower extremity, sports/community orthopedics, and trauma.

Curriculum

The curriculum includes:

• Hip (2 months)
• Spine (2 months)
• Lower Extremity (2 months)
• Sports/Community Orthopaedics (1 month)
• CP/Motion analysis (1 month)
• Trauma (1 month)
• Elective (3 months)

Conference Schedule

The conference schedule includes:

• Baylor Orthopaedic Surgery Grand Rounds (weekly)
• TCH Pediatric Surgery Grand Rounds (weekly)
• Fellow's Conference - Preoperative indications and postoperative review (weekly)
• Core curriculum didactic lectures (weekly)
• Pediatric orthopaedic journal club (quarterly)
• Motion analysis review (monthly)
• Complex spine indications (monthly)
• Multidisciplinary spine review (monthly)
• Pediatric Sports Medicine and Radiology review (monthly)

Responsibilities

Fellows act as junior staff with first contact to patients in all areas except the operative suites. They evaluate and construct management plans, which are presented to orthopedic staff. Supervision occurs in all areas, either directly or indirectly. In surgery, there is always direct, hands-on supervision for patient safety and instruction in surgical skill attainment.

Research

Fellows have the opportunity to work on projects with support from two research coordinators and two pediatric orthopaedic research fellows. Research projects are available in either laboratory-based (basic science) or clinically-based fields directly related to the field of interest to the fellow. Each fellow is required to complete a publishable research project during the fellowship and submit a paper for publication to a referred journal.

Didactic

The fellowship provides funds for fellows to attend the IPOS and POSNA Annual Meeting during the fellowship training year. The fellowship will support attendance at other scientific meetings at the program director's and department chair's discretion.

Weekend Call

Each fellow will take one weekend call with an attending (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) per month. Under the guidance of the on-call attending, the fellow will perform urgent and emergent surgeries with the on-call resident.