Resident conferences are the backbone of the educational experience. Our residents consistently achieve high scores on both the Orthopaedic In-training Examination and the written/oral examination by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgeons. This outcome is evidence of our exceptional conference schedule.

Scheduled Conferences

• Resident Didactic Reading Conference is held Monday through Thursday from 7-8am with assigned readings selected from current and classic orthopaedic textbooks, journals and various multimedia resources. Morning conference is mandatory and considered protected time. Members of the attending teaching staff are assigned to daily conferences based on their area of expertise or special interest. 
• Teaching Faculty Didactic Conference is held on Friday from 7-8am. The topic and material presented is decided on by the faculty member assigned and utilizes an evidence-based medicine approach. An assigned selection of literature is distributed to the residents for review prior to conference in preparation for discussion.
• Bioskills is incorporated into the conference schedule on Wednesday mornings (8-8:30am) when a new procedure is contemplated which the residents have not been exposed to previously. In-services are arranged with the attending and/or the hardware representative so that procedures may be reviewed prior to entering the operating room.  
• Fracture conferences (Monday-Friday, 6:45am) are a daily review of cases treated in the Emergency Room and ward consults from the previous 24 hours. With faculty guidance, residents present a thorough and concise review of each case with radiographs, current classification schemes and treatments
• Anatomy lecture is held weekly for 16 weeks at Temple University School of Medicine. It consists of a didactic lecture followed by cadaver dissection.
• Journal club is held monthly  and hosted by a member of the teaching faculty. Major journals are available for review with specific emphasis on the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.
• Joint Orthopaedic/Radiology MRI Conferences between the Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Radiology residents and faculty are held bi-monthly. These conferences review pre-operative MRI's and correlate the intraoperative findings for various orthopaedic cases.
• The Department is pleased to sponsor three annual lectures each year; the Earl C. Marmar, MD Lecture, the Abraham Rechtman, MD Lecture and Orthopaedic Alumni Day. Well known orthopaedic surgeons from across the country are invited to speak at these lectures which are the highlight of the academic year.

Grand Rounds

Grand Rounds are mandatory educational conferences for the orthopaedic residents and faculty. Grand Rounds are held every Friday from 8-9am in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Education and Conference Center.

• Patient Safety Conferences: are a monthly review of morbidity and mortality statistics from the previous month and are part of the department's quality improvement program. Residents and faculty review the root cause analysis of near misses/adverse events and whether or not these occurrences were secondary to a breakdown in a systems-based management. A portion of patient safety conference is devoted to billing updates/in-services presented by the department billing managers for orthopaedic residents and faculty. This unique educational experience offers the residents insight into the business side of medicine practice and will assist them in developing and expanding the groundwork for their own practice. Participants are taught the correct diagnosis and procedural coding techniques and criterion for documenting and billing all office visits and procedures.
• Teaching Faculty Presentations: Quarterly, on a rotating basis, teaching faculty present a formal power-point presentation on a topic of their choice based on their subspecialty or area of interest. These lectures are presented as continuing medical education events.
• Invited Guest Speakers: Once per month, a speaker is invited to present a lecture on a topic of his/her expertise within their specialty field. These lectures are presented as continuing medical education events. Guest speakers include Einstein resident alumni and well-known speakers from the medical, orthopaedic and non-medical professions. 
• Formal Case Presentations: Clinical vignettes on current cases of interest are presented by the residents to the faculty, resident and clinical staff. Academic discussions regarding diagnosis and treatment are held. Case Presentations are seen as a valuable teaching module for resident education in preparation for oral board presentation and national/local research presentation.
• Resident Basic Science Presentations: Each resident is assigned a basic science presentation per year by the Chairman/Program Director. Topics are from or based on the Orthopaedic Basic Science Textbook. The resident is required to complete a full literature search on the topic and present a power point presentation to the audience.  

Meetings

All tuition and travel costs listed below are fully funded by the department. The Department fully funds resident research projects accepted for presentation at academic meetings.

• PGY1: AO Basic Fracture Course
• PGY2: Orthopaedic Musculoskeletal Pathology Course
• PGY3: Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA) Junior Resident Fundamental Arthroscopic Skills Course
• PGY4: International POSNA/AAOS Pediatric Orthopaedic Symposium
• PGY5: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Annual Meeting and Maine Orthopaedic Surgery Board Review Course