The residency program in Orthopaedic Surgery at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida, is fully approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery as a comprehensive five-year program. It combines one year of a rotating internship and four years of orthopaedic surgery. The orthopaedic program is approved for 35 residents equally divided among the five years. Frank J. Eismont, M.D., serves as Director of the Residency Program and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics.

Each year the Department of Orthopaedics selects seven new residents at the PGY-1 level. In compliance with the program requirements of the Residency Review Committee of the ACGME, effective July 1, 2000, the PGY-1 year falls under the direction of the Program Director for Orthopaedic Surgery. The PGY-1 year consists of six months of general surgery, two months of orthopaedic surgery, one month of neurosurgery, one month of anesthesiology, one month of musculoskeletal radiology, and one month of vacation. Our orthopaedic residency program is a participant of the Electronic Residency Selection Service (ERAS) and the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP). All seven starting residents each year are selected through the Match process. Applicants must register for both ERAS and the NRMP to be considered for a position in our program.

The residency program in orthopaedics utilizes the following teaching hospitals:

Jackson Memorial Hospital
The average daily orthopaedic inpatient census is 61, and annual orthopaedic outpatient clinic visits total over 26,500.  There is an average of 10,100 operative procedures performed annually by the orthopaedic department.

Veterans Administration Hospital 
Annual orthopaedic outpatient clinic visits total over 4,800, with more than 460 orthopaedic operative procedures performed last year.

Miami Children's Hospital 
Residents on the Pediatric Orthopaedic Service take care of children at both MCH and UM/JMMC. Annual exposure at MCH exceeds 10,000 outpatient visits plus approximately 700-800 surgical patients.

Doctors Hospital 
This 285-bed hospital is the main facility utilized by the Sports Medicine Division of the Department of Orthopaedics. It is a state-of-the-art facility with dedicated arthroscopic surgery suites and the most modern of diagnostic and laboratory equipment. Orthopaedic residents rotate through this hospital while on the Sports Medicine Service, which is responsible for coverage of all University of Miami athletics, Miami-Dade County high schools, and several professional athletic teams. The hospital is located adjacent to the University of Miami main campus and is approximately 15 minutes from Jackson Memorial Hospital. Annual orthopaedic outpatient clinic visits total more than 12,000, with more than 1,050 orthopaedic operative procedures performed last year.

University of Miami Hospital
Orthopaedic residents rotate through this hospital while on the Reconstructive Service and the Musculoskeletal Oncology Service.  More than 817 orthopaedic operative procedures were performed at UMH last year.

(rev.8/11/09)