{"id":18560,"date":"2019-09-20T12:43:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T16:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/?page_id=18560"},"modified":"2025-04-28T14:16:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T18:16:37","slug":"program-mission-statement-and-aims","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/hand-surgery-fellowship\/program-mission-statement-and-aims\/","title":{"rendered":"Program Mission Statement and Aims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-18560\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-18560-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-18560-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-18560-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p>The University of Connecticut Hand Surgery Fellowship is a postgraduate program in the subspecialty of Surgery of the Hand. Our mission is to train intellectually rigorous and technically proficient surgeons for the clinical practice of hand surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Our aims are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recruit highly qualified applicants.<\/li>\n<li>Expose fellows to a broad spectrum of hand conditions and hand patients.<\/li>\n<li>Foster an environment of collegiality, intellectual curiosity, constant self-assessment, and improvement.<\/li>\n<li>Prepare fellows for independent clinical practice.<\/li>\n<li>Encourage fellows to be leaders in the communities they serve.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Connecticut Hand Surgery Fellowship is a postgraduate program in the subspecialty of Surgery of the Hand. Our mission is to train intellectually rigorous and technically proficient surgeons for the clinical practice of hand surgery. Our aims are as follows: Recruit highly qualified applicants. Expose fellows to a broad spectrum of hand conditions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"parent":6656,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 07:53:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18560"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34395,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18560\/revisions\/34395"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}