Residents work hard, but not to excess. Fifteen full-time physician assistants, thirteen clinic nursing staff members, and four clinic cast technicians are also employed. Responsibility for total patient care, surgical skills, and fracture management are introduced early with progressive autonomy over the five-year training program. In this way, we can achieve our goal of producing a compassionate, knowledgeable, and technically competent orthopaedic surgeon.

Geisinger Medical Center complies with all of the institutional requirements of the ACGME.

Our last review in September of 2005 resulted in a five-year approval without concerns, citations, or any other forms of noncompliance. We fulfill all of the special requirements of the ACGME/RRC for orthopaedic surgery. We have attending staff with subspecialty training in trauma, adult reconstruction, spine, pediatrics, sports medicine, orthopaedic oncology, foot & ankle and hand. We have also added specialists in and Hand and Orthopaedic Oncology to begin August of 2007. Our library resources and on-line information systems are extensive.

Residency specifics

• All orthopaedic surgery call is from out-of-house.
• There are no orthopaedic surgery fellows at Geisinger Medical Center, allowing for the progression of senior residents to participate in more challenging cases.
• The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Geisinger Medical Center houses its own extensive library of specialty and subspecialty specific texts and journals.
• Our residents' area affords all residents their own office space (w/individual computer stations) as well as a skills/work area. This space is conveniently located adjacent to the library/conference room area.
• We have built and are in the process of finalizing an arthroscopy skills lab in our outpatient surgery center.
• Residents are afforded the opportunity to moonlight at an affiliated hospital in Wilkes-Barre.
• Orthopaedic surgery residents must complete at least one research project of publishable quality during their five-years of residency. Annually, residents participate in our Orthopaedic Residency Research Day, as well as the Geisinger Health System Resident Research Day.
• Residents are encouraged to attend conferences and seminars outside of the institution in order to enhance the quality and breadth of their educational experience. In an effort to foster this venture, monies are set aside to fund conference attendance, as well as courses required by our department to supplement the curriculum