Residency Program

Hospitals and Rotations

OU Medical Center

The Children's Hospital, and Presbyterian Tower together comprise OU Medical Center. These hospitals are geographically adjacent to each other and connected through walkways. They share governance and staff.

Presbyterian Tower is a secondary and tertiary care facility providing both inpatient and outpatient care for adults. All orthopedic patients are integrated into the teaching services which include medical students, orthopedic surgery residents, and residents from other disciplines (General Surgery, Emergency Medicine, and Family Medicine). Areas of particular emphasis include adult reconstruction, foot and ankle, trauma, spine, and general orthopedics.

The Children's Hospital (TCH) The Orthopedic Surgery Service at Children's Hospital provides comprehensive inpatient and outpatient care for children from birth through age 21. We educate residents in all aspects of pediatric orthopedic surgery and rehabilitation utilizing general clinics and specialty clinics of myelomeningocele, scoliosis, hand, sports medicine, and cerebral palsy.

Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VA) The VA experience provides the resident with exposure to a large variety of adult orthopedic diseases and therapeutic problems. In addition, a degree of independence in a practice situation is simulated for the senior residents and supervised by the attending physicians. A large clinic population contributes to the exposure and practice challenge.

McBride Clinic Orthopedic Hostpital This rotation provides an adult reconstructive service for training residents. Total joint arthroplasties of the hip and knees as well as revision arthroplasties are performed. Ten of their orthopedic surgeons are very active on our clinical faculty and the hospital is associated with eight rheumatologists, so there is extensive exposure to arthritis care. Orthopedic staff includes trained sports medicine physicians, spine surgeons, arthroplasty surgeons, and a hand surgeon.

Hand Rotations (BMC) Residents do a hand rotation in their PGY-3 year with clinical faculty members at Baptist Medical Center. They also have a hand rotation with Dr. Lehman at Presbyterian during the PGY-4 year.

Basic Science/Oncology Rotation (Onc) Residents do a rotation during the PGY-3 year in which they spend part of the week with Dr. Kimberly Smith, a musculoskeletal oncologist in private practice, and the remainder of the time studying orthopedic oncology and radiology through independent study.