Orthopaedic Surgery Residency
Welcome
Thank you for your interest in our program. We are dedicated providing a fulfilling experience to our residents, delivering comprehensive training to ensure graduates are prepared for a successful career in orthopaedics.
Message from Dr. Seamon
We are focused on training our residents to be altruistic, fulfilled, and technically excellent orthopaedic surgeons that value duty and service to patients, colleagues, and community above all else. Our faculty are passionate about resident education and it is at the forefront of everything we do.
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About Our Program
- Program History
Our institution has a long-standing history of orthopaedic surgery education. For more than 50 years, we proudly partnered with the University of Virginia to host their orthopaedic surgery residents (2 x PGY-3 and 2 x PGY-4 residents, 4 total), and for nearly a decade we collaborated with Larkin Community Hospital in the same capacity (1 resident per 3 month block). While we cherish these partnerships, our organizations have grown within the communities they serve to such an extent that in 2023 our institution applied for and was approved to start our own accredited orthopaedic surgery residency. After much planning and hard work on behalf of the Carilion Clinic Department of Orthopaedics and Graduate Medical Education, we are excited to announce that our first class of residents will matriculate in July 2024!
- Mission Statement
We seek to train fulfilled, altruistic, and technically excellent orthopaedic surgeons equipped with the problem-solving skills and academic curiosity to provide state of the art musculoskeletal care to the communities they serve.
- Program Aims
- To train technically excellent orthopedic surgeons we will provide a robust basic surgical skills curriculum and early hands on operative experience with an emphasis on technical mastery and one on one surgical mentorship to achieve proficiency across a broad range of orthopedic procedures.
- To develop robust problem solving skills by allowing graduated and progressive care responsibility.
- To teach academic curiosity and promote evidence based practice by pursing scholarship and research activity.
- To impart values of duty and service to patient and community, modeled by our own actions and exemplified in our lives and practices.
- To provide a diverse and inclusive training environment that allows for health and wellness and resists burnout.
- Department Specs
- 50+ Orthopaedic faculty in department covering all subspecialities
- 4 Orthopaedic Surgery Residents per Class, 20 residents total when at full compliment
- Podiatry Residency with 3 podiatry residents per class – total of 9 podiatry residents
- 2 Adult Joint Reconstruction Fellows
- 1 Hand Surgery Fellow
- 1 Spine and Scoliosis Fellow
- 3 Orthopaedic Research Fellows
- Medical students - Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine
- PA students - Radford University Carilion Physician Assistant School
- Robust group of inpatient ACPs - currently 15 ACPs on the inpatient services
Virginia Tech Partnership
Residents and fellows work closely with the students, medical educators, and research scientists from the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC. This partnership leverages Virginia Tech’s world-class strength in basic sciences, bioinformatics and engineering with Carilion Clinic’s highly experienced medical staff and rich history in graduate medical education.
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