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Sponsor: New York Medical College
Chairman: Eli Bryk, M.D.
Program Director: John Denton, M.D.
Program Overview: The New York Medical College St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan Program is a fully accredited, five-year orthopaedic surgery residency with three residents in each of the five years. The primary teaching facility is St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan, located at 170 West 12th St. in New York City, NY, 10011. St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan is a major teaching site of New York Medical College, which sponsors accredited residency programs in all the major medical and surgical disciplines.
The program teaching philosophy is to present to the resident a highly organized and closely supervised educational structure. The guiding teaching methodologies are adult education principles, and the correlation of didactic subject matter into the daily delivery of musculoskeletal healthcare to patients.
The daily early morning educational conferences are scheduled during protected time and are mandatory for all residents. Attendings serve as resources/facilitators for these teaching sessions. The program strongly supports the tenet that the orthopaedic faculty should be the primary teachers for the residents. The core faculty is stable, with minimal major faculty change over recent years.
There is a large orthopaedic volume of patients, with both traumatic and degenerative disorders. The hospital Level I Trauma Center emergency department receives most of the high-energy trauma from lower Manhattan. The program goal is to produce a graduate who has the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective skills to either enter directly into the practice of general orthopaedics or to obtain a quality Fellowship.
The Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery is Eli Bryk, MD. The Residency Program Director is John R Denton, MD. Both have extensive experience in orthopaedic surgery residency education. Most of the more than twenty-five orthopaedic surgeons on the faculty are fellowship trained and provide experience and expertise in all of the orthopaedic subspecialties. The resident educational facilities include a 500 square foot resident study area/library with individual computer modules and a large faculty practice facility in the hospital that provides a faculty shadow program that allows the residents to gain experience in the continuum of patient care from pre-operative to operative to post-operative care of the same patient. A physician extender staff of six physician assistants and a cast technician attend to many of the service demands of the program.
PG-1 year: Eleven months are spent on the General Surgery Service and Internal Medical Service at St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan. One month is spent on the Orthopaedic Service. The clinical rotations in this year met the RRC requirements for gaining experience and receiving instruction in the core non-orthopaedic disciplines.
PG-2 year: Eight months are spent on the Orthopaedic Service at St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan. The junior resident is a member of the orthopaedic team that covers the Level I Trauma emergency room; actively participates in a wide variety of reconstructive and trauma surgery; manages pre-operative and post-operative patients; answers in-hospital consultations from other services; and manages a large volume of patients in an ambulatory setting. Four months are spent at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. In addition to general orthopaedics, this rotation provides the residents with experience in the management of rehabilitation programs for chronic neuromuscular disorders, lower extremity amputation surgery and amputee follow-up and the management of chronic pain disorders and syndromes.
PG-3 year: Four months are spent on the Orthopaedic Service and four months are spent on a dedicated research rotation at St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan. During the four-month research rotation, the resident is expected to complete a high quality clinical or basic science research project that will be accepted for peer-review presentations and/or publication. Four months are spent at Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, New York on the Orthopaedic Residency Service. This rotation provides experience in the management of pediatric and adult multi-system trauma and complex musculoskeletal injuries that are referred to the Center from a large catchment area north of New York City. Dr. David Asprinio, the department chairman, and the orthopaedic faculty have extensive experience in the management of these high-energy trauma cases.
PG-4 year: Seven months are spent on the Orthopaedic Service at Saint Vincent's Hospital Manhattan. Five months are spent at the NYU/Hospital for Joint Diseases in Manhattan: three months on the Pediatric Orthopaedic Service, which provides experience in the management of chronic and tertiary level childhood disorders; and two months on the Spine Service, which provides experience in the operative and non-operative management of a large variety of adult spinal disorders.
PG-5 year: Eight months are spent on the Orthopaedic Service at Saint Vincent's Hospital Manhattan, as a senior orthopaedic resident and the Chief Orthopaedic Resident. Four months are spent as a senior orthopaedic resident at Westchester Medical Center. At both locations the PG-5 resident will gain experience in more complex surgery, assume administrative residency duties, and be responsible for the teaching of the junior residents and medical students.
For inquiries and requests for applications, please contact the orthopaedic GME coordinator, Barbara Piacente at 212-604-2502. Click here for our consumer web site:
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