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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 Institutions have been at the forefront of medical education, research, and patient care since 1889. Our Orthopaedic Residency program has been training outstanding surgeons and leaders since 1900. By 1937, one-sixth of the 150 surgeons certified as orthopaedists by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery had completed their residencies at Johns Hopkins.
Our program accepts 5 or 6 residents each year as PGY-1’s, and our housestaff come from diverse cultural and academic backgrounds. Clinical rotations are organized around each of our orthopaedic sub-specialties, and our faculty members are dedicated to teaching, as well as patient care and patient safety.
Residents rotate at 4 locations, all within Baltimore, minimizing travel time. These include The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Good Samaritan Hospital and Union Memorial Hospital. These sites provide exposure to different patient populations and an extensive variety of clinical conditions.
Resident education is a high priority and every week, there are 5 hours of protected time set aside for formal orthopaedic education. This is an opportunity to learn from our faculty and visiting speakers, as well as for peer mentoring and sharing knowledge in a collegial setting. Talks on scientific advances, clinical sub-specialty updates, pathology, anatomy, OITE review, and others are given during this time. Approximately twice a month from January to June, the teaching conference is held at Bayview in the motor skills lab, and in addition to formal lectures, residents have the chance to participate in hands-on surgical practice in our International Center for Orthopaedic Education.
Each sub-specialty service holds its own rigorous teaching conferences throughout the week for the residents on the service, as well. And, as might be expected, our residents benefit from daily interactions with recognized leaders in other medical subspecialties across our institutions.
Hopkins residents are encouraged to pursue research interests and have an entire rotation dedicated to research in their PGY-3 and 4 years. Research opportunities range from basic science (molecular biology, biomechanics, bone biology, peripheral nerve, cartilage regeneration) to clinical studies and outcomes in all areas of orthopaedic sub-specialties.
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. Through the next 4 years in the department each resident works on the project, and they are each expected to give a talk summarizing their research at our annual resident graduation.
In addition to teaching and research, patient care is a top priority at Hopkins. 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 the faculty.
Our residents attend Orioles games (and can cover some games as team physician in their Chief year), participate in yearly team-building events, and sail and fish with Dr. Frassica. Residents and staff also enjoy annual holiday and summer parties, special events, and a Chief Resident Graduation Day and formal celebration.
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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