{"id":2292,"date":"2018-02-28T13:17:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T18:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/musculoskeletal-institute\/?page_id=2292"},"modified":"2020-09-29T14:30:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T18:30:25","slug":"where-we-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/musculoskeletal-institute\/orthopedic-residency\/where-we-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Where We Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\n\t\tWhere We Work\n\t<\/h1>\n\t<p>Our residency program is academically based at UConn Health, with rotations at Connecticut Children\u2019s, Hartford Hospital, Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, and The Hospital of Central Connecticut. Each community hospital has a site director and teaching service comprised of highly-qualified clinical faculty. There are over 8,500 inpatient operative cases covered across the affiliated hospitals each year.<\/p>\n<h2>\n\t\tUConn John Dempsey Hospital at UConn Health\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>UConn John Dempsey Hospital at UConn Health is a university teaching hospital with a focus on patient care, along with clinical and basic science research. We treat the entire spectrum of inpatient and outpatient orthopaedic care, across all subspecialties.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/musculoskeletal-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2018\/03\/where-work-UConn-Health.jpg\" alt=\"UConn Health University Tower exterior\" height=\"667\" width=\"1000\" title=\"where-work-UConn-Health\" \/>\n<h2>\n\t\tMusculoskeletal Institute\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>The Musculoskeletal Institute (MSI) represents a consortium of clinical services that includes Orthopedics &amp; Sports Medicine, the Comprehensive Spine Center, our Osteoporosis Center, and Rheumatology. At the present time, seven residents rotate at this site in oncology, sports medicine, hand and upper extremity, spine, adult reconstruction, bone infection, and foot and ankle.<\/p>\n<p>Research is also a core component of MSI with seven basic science research faculty and four clinical faculty who have active basic science research labs. We have a number of other laboratories that are committed to various aspects of musculoskeletal basic science research too.<\/p>\n<p>Our institute has a dedicated facility on UConn Health\u2019s lower campus that is entirely committed to musculoskeletal care.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First Floor<\/strong> \u2013 Radiology and physical therapy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Second Floor<\/strong> \u2013 Outpatient surgical area known as the UConn Health Surgery Center<\/li>\n<li><strong>Third Floor<\/strong> \u2013 Patient care<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fourth Floor<\/strong> \u2013 Academic offices, conference rooms, basic science research labs, Bioskills Laboratory, resident resource center, and state-of-the-art Harry R. Gossling Library. The library is supported by a philanthropic grant from the Gossling family in memory of the first chairman of the Department of Surgery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/musculoskeletal-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2018\/03\/where-work-msi.jpg\" alt=\"UConn Health MARB building exterior\" height=\"667\" width=\"1000\" title=\"where-work-msi\" \/>\n<h2>\n\t\tAffiliated Hospitals\n\t<\/h2>\n  \n  Connecticut Children&#8217;s\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/musculoskeletal-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2018\/03\/where-work-CCMC.jpg\" alt=\"Connecticut Children's Medical Center building exterior\" height=\"667\" width=\"1000\" title=\"where-work-CCMC\" \/>\n\t<p>Connecticut Children\u2019s is the region\u2019s only full-service hospital devoted completely to the care of children. Residents are exposed to all aspects of pediatric orthopaedic surgery including trauma, limb lengthening and deformity correction, neuromuscular disorders, spine deformities, and pediatric sports injuries. Residents also have access to Connecticut Children\u2019s nationally renowned gait laboratory and its full-time staff for learning and research opportunities. During this rotation, each resident will complete a research project which should produce a publishable presentation. PGY-1 residents will spend one month in pediatric general surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Five highly qualified pediatric orthopaedic surgeons provide an excellent educational environment. Each resident is placed in a mentor relationship with a single attending physician for one month at a time. Weekly preoperative and postoperative conferences, journal club, and didactic lectures provide full immersion into the pediatric orthopaedic experience. Residents learn the principles of orthopaedic surgery, surgical indications, and postoperative rehabilitations, as well as the art of nonoperative treatment of musculoskeletal conditions.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.connecticutchildrens.org\/\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLearn More\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n  \n  Hartford Hospital\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/musculoskeletal-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2018\/03\/where-work-hartford-hospital.jpg\" alt=\"Hartford Hospital building in Hartford CT\" height=\"667\" width=\"1000\" title=\"where-work-hartford-hospital\" \/>\n\t<p>Hartford Hospital is the region\u2019s major Level 1 trauma center and site for LIFE STAR, an air ambulance service for critically injured patients throughout the state. This busy, private hospital provides residents exposure to a variety of orthopaedic subspecialties including trauma, adult reconstruction, sports, and hand. The mainstay of the clinical experience at Hartford Hospital is the trauma rotation. Over 3,000 trauma patients are seen and 800 orthopaedic trauma procedures are performed annually.<\/p>\n<p>Five residents rotate at Hartford Hospital at any given time. Special attention is paid to developing a network of in-hospital physician assistants and nurse practitioners to assist with day-to-day in-patient care and coverage of overnight in-house calls in an effort to maximize the residents&#8217; operative experience.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.harthosp.org\/\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLearn More\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n  \n  Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/musculoskeletal-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2018\/03\/where-work-st-francis.jpg\" alt=\"St. Francis Hospital building\" height=\"667\" width=\"1000\" title=\"where-work-st-francis\" \/>\n\t<p>Saint Francis is Connecticut&#8217;s third largest hospital and this rotation is a valuable educational experience for residents. Three residents rotate at this site and spend a majority of time in busy arthroplasty, trauma, and sports rotations. The residents have the opportunity to work very closely with a small group of attendings on a general orthopaedic rotation.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stfranciscare.org\/\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLearn More\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n  \n  The Hospital of Central Connecticut\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/musculoskeletal-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2018\/03\/where-work-Central-CT.jpg\" alt=\"The Hospital of Central CT building exterior\" height=\"667\" width=\"1000\" title=\"where-work-Central-CT\" \/>\n\t<p>During the PGY-1 year, each orthopaedic resident will complete one rotation on the general surgery service at The Hospital of Central Connecticut. During these rotations, residents are able to spend time in the operating room acquiring basic surgical techniques.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thocc.org\/\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLearn More\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where We Work Our residency program is academically based at UConn Health, with rotations at Connecticut Children\u2019s, Hartford Hospital, Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, and The Hospital of Central Connecticut. Each community hospital has a site director and teaching service comprised of highly-qualified clinical faculty. 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