Orthopedic Surgery Residency Columbia - Program Details

About our residency program

Prisma Health Orthopedics in Columbia accounts for over 200,000 outpatient visits and over 8,000 surgical procedures each year. The faculty to resident ratio allows for one-on-one clinical and operative experiences, even for junior residents, promoting more rapid progression of responsibilities. The presence of multiple faculty within each subspecialty field allows for diversity of approach and opinion.

Additional resident education is provided through didactic educational conferences each morning at 6:30 a.m. The curriculum follows a two-year repeating cycle covering all sub-specialties. All residents will have the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge gains by taking the Orthopaedic in Training Examination (OITE) each November.

Within this didactic curriculum is embedded a yearly 9 week orthopedic anatomy course. This progresses through orthopedic anatomy by region, and includes specific education on physical exam, gross anatomy, surgical exposures, and adult and pediatric fractures associated with that region.

We also provide for travel allowances and cover the cost of attendance for resident educational courses. During the PGY-2 year residents attend the AO Basic Fracture Course; PGY-3s attend the AO Spine course; PGY-4s attend the AO Advanced Fracture Course; and the PGY-5 residents attend the AAOS annual meeting and the AAOS Orthopedic Review Course.  Additionally, all residents, save the call team, attend the South Carolina Orthopedic Association Annual Meeting (held at Kiawah Island) and Augusta Spine Conference on an annual basis.

Additional resident support is provided in the form of a comprehensive benefits package.