Orthopaedic Surgery : Residency Program

General Description:

The Orthopaedic residency program at the University of Toledo is a five-year, accredited program which accepts three residents per year. Dr. Nabil Ebraheim is the program director and the department chairman. The first year of training (PGY 1) is a general internship consisting of:

• 3 months of Orthopaedic surgery,
• six months of structured education in surgery to include multisystem trauma, plastic surgery/burn care, intensive care, and vascular surgery,
• one month of structured education in the three following areas: rehabilitation, neurological surgery, and rheumatology.

PGY 2 through PGY 5 are spent on the Orthopaedic services, with the PGY 3 year containing a four month basic science research block and a four month rotation at the Shriners Hospital in Lexington, KY. Typically, two residents out of three will go on to fellowship training following graduation from the program. They usually obtain the fellowship of their choice.

Curriculum:

Core lectures run from September through May, on Thursday afternoons from 4 - 7pm. The lectures consist of a one-hour anatomy dissection, followed by two hours of formal lectures.  Basic sciences are emphasized in our curriculum. 

Grand Rounds are monthly lectures featuring a well-known visiting professor. These help faculty and residents to gain the most updated knowledge in a specific area of Orthopaedics and count towards Continuing Medical Education.

Journal Club is a monthly event where residents and faculty meet informally to discuss recent articles from Orthopaedic Surgery-related journals.  Journal Club serves as a forum for residents and faculty to discuss the current advancements and controversies in Orthopaedics.  They are hosted by one of the attending physicians at a local restaurant. 

Salary / Benefits:

Salary: Effective July 1, 2007 - PGY I - $41,566, with yearly increases through PGY 5 up to $46,783.
Vacation: 3 weeks PGYI, 4 weeks PGY 2 - PGY 5
Paid leave: 6 weeks maternity/ 1 week paternity, 1 week/year for an elective meeting or course.
Conferences:  Each resident attends the Enneking pathology course, Dallas orthotics/prosthetics course, AO basic internal fixation course and the hand society review course. The department will send residents to courses (ie: AAOS or state society meetings) where he/she is presenting a research paper or poster.

Resident performance:

As a group, The UT Orthopaedic residents have scored in the top 98 percentile last year on the Orthopaedic in-training examination; 97th percentile in the 2005 exam; and 99th percentile in the 2004 exam. The pass rate on the Orthopaedic board examination (Part 1) is 100% for the last several years. 

Application:

Thank you for showing an interest in our residency program.  For information concerning the application process or for interview dates, please contact our residency coordinator Matthew Widmer at matthew.widmer@utoledo.edu.