The mission of Albert Einstein Medical Center’s Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program is to ensure that each resident acquires the knowledge, skills and attitudes to become a proficient general orthopaedist or skilled subspecialist.

Residency Program Goals

• To educate residents to become well-rounded orthopaedic surgeons
• To create a learning atmosphere based in education so that teaching will flourish.
• To provide residents with experience in all facets of orthopaedic surgery
• To train residents to be exceptional diagnosticians
• To foster the fundamentals of nonoperative and operative treatments
• To develop an understanding of research methodology
• To provide residents with the training necessary to function competently as subspecialist consultants as well as primary care physicians for musculoskeletal injuries and disorders
• To provide residents with the tools and fundamentals for advanced fellowship training or to enter private practice
• To foster a professionalism applicable to all encounters with patients, families and colleagues
• To provide residents with an opportunity to develop expertise in computer-based information systems
• To emphasize a cost-conscious approach to operative and nonoperative patient care
• To provide residents with an understanding and appreciation of an integrated healthcare team as an approach to inpatient as well as outpatient care
• To prepare residents to pass the certification, both written and oral, examinations of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgeons