Program Overview

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Introduction to the Johns Hopkins Orthopaedic Surgery Residency

The Johns Hopkins Orthopaedic Surgery Residency is a comprehensive program designed to provide residents with a thorough education in orthopaedic surgery. The program is structured to offer a balance of clinical experience, didactic instruction, and research opportunities.

Residency Curriculum, Rotations, and Clinical Sites

A didactic curriculum for basic and clinical sciences is taught by the faculty with an emphasis on resident participation. Information is kept on a resident education website. To supplement these sessions, grand rounds are conducted each week. Several additional courses in each subspecialty, as well as in pathology, anatomy, and basic science, are given throughout the year.

• Each resident is given sufficient graded responsibility and opportunity to make important clinical decisions and perform a variety of major and minor orthopaedic procedures.
• Responsibility progresses with increasing knowledge and skill level in the setting of a supportive faculty and the protective environment of a hospital with experienced and academically involved attending staff.
• Each participating hospital also has its own series of subspecialty teaching conferences. Residents attend the conferences appropriate to each rotation.
• Two three-hour teaching sessions per month are held in the International Center for Orthopaedic Advancement, which combines a surgical dissection suite with an instrument development lab.
• Residents become familiar with implants, devices, and instruments for orthopaedic surgery and receive hands-on experience with sawbones and cadavers.

Program Year One (PGY-1) Rotations

• Four months of general surgery
  • One month of trauma surgery
  • One month of vascular surgery
  • One month of plastic surgery
  • One month of intensive care
• One month of motor skills
• Seven months of orthopaedics
  • Six months of adult orthopaedic trauma/oncology
  • One month of orthopaedic pathology/radiology
  • Two weeks of vacation during orthopaedic trauma/oncology

Program Year Two (PGY-2) Rotations

• Six 8-week blocks:
  • Spine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Sports at The Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Hand at The Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Trauma at The Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Joints and trauma at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
  • Four weeks of vacation

Program Year Three (PGY-3) Rotations

• Six 8-week blocks:
  • Pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Joints and trauma at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
  • Shoulder at The Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Hand at The Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Foot/ankle at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Bayview
  • Research
  • Four weeks of vacation

Program Year Four (PGY-4) Rotations

• Six 8-week blocks:
  • Hand at The Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Trauma at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
  • Joints at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
  • Joints and spine at Suburban Hospital
  • Shoulder and community trauma at Howard County
  • Research
  • Four weeks of vacation

Program Year Five (PGY-5) Rotations

• Six 8-week blocks:
  • Adult trauma at The Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Orthopaedic oncology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Outreach/spine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Sports at The Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Joints, spine, and sports at National Capitol Region
  • Four weeks of vacation

Outreach and Volunteer Opportunities

Many of the faculty volunteer their surgical skills to underserved populations, both in the United States and abroad. Residents have time and financial support and are strongly encouraged to participate in an outreach trip during their fourth year.

• Operation Walk Maryland is a private, not-for-profit volunteer medical organization that provides comprehensive, state-of-the-art free hip and knee replacements for impoverished patients throughout the world.
• This organization educates local healthcare professionals on the most advanced treatments for debilitating joint disease and is headed by Harpal (Paul) Khanuja, M.D.

Clinical Sites

The Johns Hopkins Hospital | Baltimore, MD

• More than 1,000 inpatient beds
• Regional pediatric trauma center
• Level 1 emergency room for adults

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center | Baltimore, MD

• More than 700 inpatient beds
• Regional burn center
• Level 2 emergency room
• Home of the International Center for Orthopaedic Advancement and a world-class Hip and Knee Replacement Program

Suburban Hospital | Bethesda, MD

• An acute-care, medical-surgical hospital with more than 200 beds featuring all major services except obstetrics
• Admissions total approximately 14,000 annually
• The designated trauma center for Montgomery County; treats about 1,600 trauma patients a year
• Offers research collaboration opportunities with the National Institutes of Health

Sibley Memorial Hospital | Washington, DC

• 318-bed community hospital
• Medical, surgical, intensive care, obstetric, oncology, orthopaedic, and skilled nursing inpatient services and a state-of-the-art 24-hour Emergency Department

Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center | Columbia, MD

• 208-bed comprehensive acute-care medical center
• Specializing in women's and children's services, surgery, cardiology, oncology, orthopaedics, gerontology, psychiatry, emergency services, and community health education

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital | Baltimore, MD

• 279-bed teaching facility
• Regional foot and ankle center