Rotations are based on guidelines provided by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery.
Residents must spend six months in the first year devoted to non-orthopaedic surgery rotations.
- PGY-1 Non-Orthopaedic Rotations
- Multi-system trauma (1 month)
- Surgical intensive care (1 month)
- Plastic surgery (1 month)
- Vascular surgery (1 month)
- Basic surgical skills (1 month)
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (1 month)
- PGY-1 Orthopaedic Rotations
- Trauma Day Consult (6 weeks)/Trauma PM Inpatient (6 weeks)
- General Orthopaedics-DRH/DRaH (3 months)
In years two through five, residents rotate through most orthopaedic subspecialties at least twice—once as a junior resident and later as a senior/chief resident. The rotations are education-based, with residents having experience in all services and graduated responsibility based on experience, performance, and competence. As a part of the orthopaedic curriculum development, Senior Residents (PGY-4 and -5) will have an opportunity to develop elective rotations in areas of their choosing to advance their knowledge base and experience with operative cases of greater complexity or to complete research with a structured proposal.
- PGY-2 Resident
- Sports Medicine (6 weeks)
- Trauma PM Consult (6 weeks)
- Oncology (6 weeks)
- Hand (6 weeks)
- Adult Reconstruction (6 weeks)
- Adult Spine (6 weeks)
- Durham VA or Duke Regional (3 months)
- PGY-3 Resident
- Trauma (6 weeks)
- Foot (6 weeks)
- Durham VA/ Duke Regional (3 months)
- Basic Science/Research (3 months)
- Pediatric Orthopaedics (3 months)
- PGY-4 Resident
- Sports Medicine (6 weeks)
- Hand (6 weeks)
- Adult Reconstruction (6 weeks)
- Adult Spine (6 weeks)
- Durham VA (6 weeks)
- Duke Regional (6 weeks)
- Pediatric Orthopaedics (3 months)
- PGY-5 Chief Resident
- Oncology (6 weeks)
- Trauma Admin (6 weeks)
- Trauma Operative (6 weeks)
- Durham VA (3 months)
- Elective #1 (6 weeks)
- Elective #2 (6 weeks)
- Elective #3 (6 weeks)