The PG-1 year(12 months) is spent as a preliminary surgery resident at St. Vincent�s Hospital Manhattan in a program which meets the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery�s twelve months of structured education� requirements.

Queens Hospitals:  
Thirty-five of the remaining forty-eight months of orthopaedic residency are spent in Queens. All of the basic science teaching and research is done there. The orthopaedic department is free-standing with a single faculty, grand rounds, policies and procedures, schedule of conferences, philosophy and credentialing process. During these thirty-five months, residents rotate through three general orthopaedic rotations. Each rotation has a senior faculty member service director, who is responsible for residents� education. There is a step-wise resident organization, which provides for peer and near-peer teaching and supervision by the residents and allows for progression of resident responsibility. The assignment of surgery and other duties is done in an organized fashion, based upon the difficulty of the activity and predicated on the resident�s experience, knowledge, training level, and ability to function in a supervised self-directed manner.

During the PG-3 and PG-5 years, the resident will spend four months in each year at Saint Vincent�s Hospital Manhattan, on the orthopaedic surgery service, under the direction of Dr. Eli Bryk. During each four-month rotation, the resident will spend one month on each of the four subspecialties: Foot/Ankle, Joint Replacement; Sports Medicine and Hand. The goal of this rotation is to provide an in-depth educational experience and an exposure to a wide variety and volume of patients.

Five months of the PG-4 year are spent at The Orthopaedic Institute, located in Manhattan. This is a consecutive five-month period, consisting of a three-month rotation on pediatric orthopedics and a two-month rotation on the spine service. During this rotation, residents attend all the teaching sessions, take call, are integrated into the training program and participate fully in patient care at the Orthopaedic Institute. At no time does an orthopaedic resident have a rotation outside of an ACGME accredited institution.

Application Process: The residency is fully accredited as a five-year (PG1-PG5) freestanding program. There are three residents in each year for a total of fifteen residents.

The PG1 year is spent as a preliminary surgical resident at St. Vincent�s Hospital Manhattan. Selection to that training year is automatic if the applicant matches to the orthopaedic residency.

Applications are accepted only through the ERAS program. Resident selection is made through the NRMP in March of each year, to begin the residency in July of that same year.

A personal interview is required and takes place on one of two Saturdays in January of each year. Those applicants selected for an interview will be notified prior to January 1.