Program Information
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Residency Program: |
Wake Forest University Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program |
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Program Director: |
Jason E. Lang, MD |
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Number of Residents: |
25 |
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Number of Staff: |
36 |
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Accredited: |
Accredited |
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Length of Program: |
5 |
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Start Dates: |
July |
Program Contact Information
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Name: |
Kathleen A Hermance |
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Address: |
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center |
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City: |
Winston-Salem |
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State/Province: |
North Carolina |
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Zip/Postal code |
27157 |
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Phone: |
(336) 716-3946 |
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Fax: |
(336) 716-3861 |
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Email: |
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Website: |
Program Highlights
- Comprehensive program with special emphasis on: diagnostic and operative arthroscopy, microsurgery, hand surgery, trauma, adult reconstruction, spine, foot and ankle, rehabilitative medicine
- Extensive conference schedule
- Weekly conferences in trauma, hip, hand, foot and ankle, total joint, Core conference
- Weekly Grand Rounds
- Monthly M&M conference
- Monthly journal club
- Annual trauma/motor skills workshop
- Annual musculoskeletal pathology workshop
- One research paper in publishable format required
- Sponsorship provided to attend up to 2 national meetings per year to present research papers
- Second-year residents cover area high school sports teams
- Third-year residents and up responsible for their own clinics
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Program Curriculum
- PGY-1: Pediatric surgery, emergency medicine, cardiothoracic, anesthesia, plastic surgery, trauma (general surgery), neurosurgery, vascular surgery, surgical oncology, orthopaedic surgery, research
- PGY-2: Sports, emergency medicine, general orthopaedics
- PGY-3: Two 2-month research rotations, plus four orthopaedic service rotations, outpatient clinic
- PGY-4: Senior Resident
- PGY-5: Chief Resident, assistant in sports medical coverage of University sports teams
Program Hospitals
- Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center – Winston-Salem, NC
- WG (Bill) Hefner VA Medical Center – Salisbury, NC