Department
Name of department: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation
Head of department: John Hagedorn II
Surgeon in charge of fellows: John C. Hagedorn II
Scrub in
Is there an opportunity for the AO Fellows to scrub in? No
More information
Number of beds in department: 450
Total Orthopedic trauma cases per year: 500–1000
Total Polytrauma cases with injury severity score greater than 15 per year: 50–100
Other activities: Weekly virtual/hybrid educational training conferences. This includes our weekly Wednesday morning resident led educational session, our Wednesday morning conference (2 hour didactic session), and the Fellow will be asked to present on one of the Wednesdays during his fellowship. The fellow will also be able to attend our journal club meetings, as well as our Monday morning Transition of Care Conference and our Thursday morning (every other week) Fracture conferences, as well as our Psychomotor Skills Labs on every other Thursday evening. We also hold Ortho Midday Summits (OMS) on both of our campuses 2 days a week (lunch included).
Language
Dominant language spoken in the operating room: English
English written and spoken by our team members: written (5)* / spoken (5)*
* Level of proficiency, with 1 equaling basic and 5 equaling proficient.