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Welcome
from the Residency Program Director
Dawn LaPorte
I would like to welcome you to the Johns Hopkins Orthopaedic Residency website. The Johns Hopkins Medical Institution has been at the forefront of medical education, research, and patient care since 1889. Our Orthopaedic Residency program has been training outstanding surgeons and leaders for nearly 100 years.
The program consists of 5 residents per postgraduate year and our housestaff come from diverse cultural and academic backgrounds. The orthopaedic training involves rotations at 4 locations, all located within Baltimore, minimizing travel time. These include The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, and the Good Samaritan Hospital. These sites provide exposure to different patient populations and an extensive variety of clinical conditions. There are dedicated clinical rotations in each of the orthopaedic sub-specialties. The faculty at each of these centers are dedicated to teaching and resident education as well as patient care and patient safety.
Resident education is a high priority and every week, there are 4 hours of protected time dedicated to resident didactics. This time is reserved for congregating the group of housestaff to learn and work together. This is an opportunity for collegiality, for sharing knowledge, and for peer mentoring as well as for learning from the faculty and visiting speakers. Courses on pathology, anatomy, OITE review, orthopaedic sub-specialties, and others are given in this time. Approx twice a month, the teaching conference is held at Bayview in the motor skills lab and the residents have formal lecture as well as hands-on surgical experience. Each sub-specialty service holds its own teaching conferences for the residents on that service as well. In addition, our residents benefit from daily interactions with recognized leaders in other medical subspecialties.
Hopkins residents are encouraged to pursue research interests and have 9 weeks of dedicated research time in their PGY3 and 4 years. Research opportunities range from basic science (molecular biology, biomechanics, peripheral nerve, cartilage regeneration) to outcomes and clinical studies in all areas of orthopaedic sub-specialty. Interns are provided with a research mentor and are assisted in developing a research plan, submitting an IRB, and presenting their research proposal to the department for feedback at Research Rounds.
In addition to teaching and research, patient care is a top priority. Clinical responsibilities are increased in a graded fashion with appropriate faculty supervision such that, on completion of training, each resident will have the skills, knowledge, and confidence needed to make important clinical decisions and to practice independently.
While the orthopaedic residency is a busy program with world class faculty and facilities, the size of the program allows for individual attention and each new resident immediately becomes part of the Hopkins orthopaedic family. This includes having a senior resident buddy/mentor as well as 100% access and open communication with all faculty.
Our residents and staff enjoy an annual crab feast, holiday party, and Chief resident graduation celebrations. They also attend Orioles games (and can cover some games as team physician in their Chief year), have paintball tournaments, and sail and fish with Dr. Frassica.
The Johns Hopkins Orthopaedic faculty are proud of the consistently outstanding residents that graduate from this program. We are dedicated to our residents, our patients, and the orthopaedic and scientific community. We support continued improvement and include resident members on our department committees.
I hope you will consider Johns Hopkins for your orthopaedic training.
Sincerely,
Dawn LaPorte, MD
Residency Program Director
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