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The PGY-2 resident will rotate through the Erie County Medical Center (the Regional Trauma Center), where they will gain experience seeing and evaluating orthopaedic trauma patients with fractures of the extremity, spine, pelvis, and acetabulum, as well as soft tissue injuries. Residents will also assist in adult reconstructive operations in foot and ankle, total joint reconstruction, osteotomies, elective spine, shoulder, hand, and upper extremity. |
| Each of the sub-specialty areas (arthroplasty, spine, foot and ankle, sports medicine, hand and shoulder) have outpatient clinics which are held on a weekly basis. In these clinics, the resident and attending physician evaluate and manage both operative and non-operative patients as well as post operative patient follow-up care. |
| The second year resident also rotates through Buffalo General Hospital, and will participate in adult reconstructive, spine surgery, and general orthopaedics. The Buffalo General Hospital is a busy orthopaedic hospital; the faculty performed over 1500 orthopaedic cases in the year 2000. Arthroplasty, spine and tumors are the specialty areas of the full-time staff.
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| Beginning in July 2002, each PGY-2 resident will have an opportunity to spend three months in the Orthopaedic Research Lab under William Mihalko, MD, PhD. Responsibilities here will be devoted to academic pursuits relating to orthopaedics, and the resident will take call at the Buffalo General Hospital as part of the regular call rotation. The resident is also expected to attend all morning conferences at BGH. This three-month block is intended to introduce the resident to scholarly work; beginning with basic level project design and following through to completion and submission of the work to an academic body. |
| This three-month rotation is only an introduction to help the resident establish a project(s) which can then be carried through to completion. A full project is not expected to be completed in the three-month block; however, significant progress should be made in commencing and establishing the foundations for the research endeavor. |
| Under the guidance of the research director, William Mihalko MD, PhD, the resident can undertake any project they feel appropriate as it relates to orthopaedics, ranging from clinical studies to molecular biology. We are constantly forging academic relationships with various departments, from Nuclear Medicine to Biochemistry. |
| The lab is equipped with a variety of equipment as outlined on the Orthopaedic Research Lab web page. The resident has his or her own office space and office materials including a computer. The resident can work according to his or her schedule as long as the rotation is not abused. |
