Pediatric Orthopedics Fellowship Curriculum

There is no regular weekday call. Occasionally, the pediatric orthopedic fellow will be asked to take calls, such as for resident vacations, OITE, etc.

Each fellow will take one weekend call with an attending (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) per month. Under the guidance of the on-call attending, the fellow will perform urgent and emergent surgeries with the on-call resident. 

The Texas Children’s Hospital is the largest pediatric hospital in the United States. This institution provides a comprehensive experience in the clinical and surgical management of scoliosis, congenital disorders, trauma, and developmental abnormalities. On this rotation the fellows’ time is composed of approximately forty percent inpatient, fifty percent ambulatory/clinic, and ten percent didactics.

To learn more visit the Texas Children's Department of Orthopedics website.

Texas Children’s Hospital is the largest children’s hospital in the United States. This allows for unmatched access to high patient volumes that can be utilized for clinical
research.

Clinical fellows will have the opportunity to work on projects with support from two research coordinators and two pediatric orthopaedic research fellows. Research projects are available in either laboratory-based (basic science) or clinically-based fields directly related to the field of interest to the fellow.

All projects are performed under the supervision of the director of Orthopedic Research and each fellow’s research mentor, both of whom are actively involved with the fellow in all phases of the investigational studies.

Each pediatric orthopedic fellow is required to complete a publishable research project during the period of his/her fellowship and to submit a paper for publication to a referred journal. Fellows will prepare and make a formal presentation to the Orthopedic faculty at the Annual William A. Phillips Pediatric Orthopaedic Symposium at the end of the fellowship year.

The fellowship provides funds for the pediatric orthopedics fellows to attend IPOS and the POSNA Annual Meeting during the fellowship training year. The fellowship will support attendance of fellows who have abstracts accepted at other scientific meetings at the program director’s and department chair’s discretion.