Yale Arthroplasty Fellowship Program Summary 2021
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- 00:00Greetings. This is a summary
- 00:05presentation regarding the Yale
- 00:07Arthroplasty Fellowship with an
- 00:09overview highlighting features related
- 00:11to the August 2020 two position.
- 00:13I'm doctor Rubin,
- 00:15associate professor and chief of the
- 00:17total joint service here at Yale.
- 00:21So, greetings from New Haven.
- 00:22This is the School of Medicine's
- 00:24Sterling Hall of Medicine,
- 00:25which is the home base of the
- 00:27medical library, the Deans Office.
- 00:29This is a quick view inside
- 00:31the historic medical library.
- 00:33It's a beautiful building.
- 00:35And each fall they decorate
- 00:37the book tree inside there.
- 00:39So in this presentation I want to go over.
- 00:42Some information about the yellow
- 00:44orthopedic surgery residency to
- 00:45familiarize you with our program.
- 00:47Of course,
- 00:47the division of Adult reconstruction
- 00:49here at Yale faculty activities within
- 00:51the division programs and initiatives
- 00:53that were working on fellowship
- 00:55benefits and responsibilities,
- 00:56and some summary points for consideration.
- 01:01So first about the residency,
- 01:03doctor Latanza is our new chair and Doctor.
- 01:06Sochi is the program director
- 01:08for the Orthopedic residency.
- 01:10We have quite a fantastic group of residents.
- 01:13We have 5 per year for the five
- 01:16years and two fellows. Currently.
- 01:18One is her spine surgery split
- 01:20with neurosurgery as well as
- 01:22one for orthopedic trauma.
- 01:24Our fellows are present or residents.
- 01:26I should say are hardworking,
- 01:28diverse, dynamic,
- 01:29outgoing and generally pretty happy.
- 01:31I think they.
- 01:32They really like the program and they
- 01:34contribute to this sort of high level of
- 01:36energy and accomplishment of our program.
- 01:38Residents rotate in the total joint
- 01:40services A13 and A5 as shown here in.
- 01:42The residents have a lab block for
- 01:44dedicated research in their 3,
- 01:45four and five year.
- 01:48Young Haven Hospital is kind
- 01:49of split into two locations.
- 01:51One is York Street campus.
- 01:53An one is the SRC campus.
- 01:55the York Street campus is the home
- 01:57base for the hospital network.
- 01:59It's the flagship hospital has
- 02:01the level one trauma center,
- 02:02Smilow Cancer Center,
- 02:03young Haven Children's Hospital
- 02:05and it's the home base.
- 02:06Accordingly for the orthopedic
- 02:08trauma program.
- 02:08Ortho oncology,
- 02:09Pediatrics and some spine in hand.
- 02:11Depending on the on call volume,
- 02:13residents to the ER consoles there in
- 02:15Stafford Hospital 24/7 is a resident room.
- 02:18Excellent cafeteria,
- 02:18Anna.
- 02:19Legendary set of food carts
- 02:20down the street on Cedar Street
- 02:22that are there year round.
- 02:23Just down the street is the same Rachels
- 02:25campus which was an independent hospital.
- 02:27That yell acquired a number of
- 02:28years ago and is now considered
- 02:30part of Yale New Haven Hospital
- 02:32over that side of town.
- 02:33We have the total joint service.
- 02:35The sports app are extremely service.
- 02:36The hands find foot and
- 02:38ankle services are all based.
- 02:39There are hip fracture program
- 02:41is based at this institution and
- 02:43we all participate as faculty in
- 02:45the hip fracture called.
- 02:46Which is a dedicated call
- 02:48pool just for that program.
- 02:50Mcgivney is the outpatient surgical center.
- 02:52We have 6 hours and a procedure suite there
- 02:55that's only for orthopedics and spine,
- 02:57and we do outpatient total joints there,
- 02:59amongst among other procedures like foot,
- 03:01sports,
- 03:02hand, etc.
- 03:04In total we have approximately 19
- 03:06full-time aips to do all the ER
- 03:08consoles at Saint Ray Fields and
- 03:10work closely with our program for
- 03:12case coverage in overnight coverage.
- 03:14The hospital itself was founded
- 03:16in 1826 with 13 beds and has
- 03:18grown significantly through the
- 03:20acquisition of other hospitals
- 03:22in the in the local region.
- 03:23We have 15141 beds at the
- 03:25two hospitals in New Haven,
- 03:27which can constitute a the big
- 03:29flagship element in the system,
- 03:31which has about almost 2600 beds.
- 03:33Young hit hospitals ranked and
- 03:35US news and World Report across
- 03:36multiple specialties,
- 03:37including for orthopedics,
- 03:38and we're very pleased about that.
- 03:40In terms of the size of the hospital,
- 03:42we rank is the 6th largest hospital in
- 03:44the country and as a health system,
- 03:46we're certainly in the top 10 as well.
- 03:50The health system looks something
- 03:51like this where it spans from left
- 03:54to right from Greenwich Hospital
- 03:55up to Bridgeport and Milford,
- 03:57which were connected Young Haven
- 03:59Hospital in the center and then
- 04:01towards the eastern end of the state is
- 04:03Lawrence of moral in Westerly Hospital.
- 04:05With this means is we have a
- 04:07very large network of clinics
- 04:09in hospitals and facilities,
- 04:10including urgent care partnerships.
- 04:12There's two helicopters that fly and
- 04:14all the complex trauma revision,
- 04:15joints, hip fracture type cases that
- 04:18need to be transferred or sent to us.
- 04:20Get downtown.
- 04:22Orthopedic practice is based in New Haven.
- 04:25As you see here we have offices in Milford,
- 04:28Guilford in the suburbs.
- 04:29This was a northaven practice site
- 04:32which was closed after Covid and we're
- 04:34opening an office here in the fall.
- 04:37Clinical sites in New Haven.
- 04:38This is the main young Haven Hospital campus.
- 04:40This is the SRC campus and they're
- 04:42just a few blocks away and we
- 04:44have our orthopedic office here
- 04:45at Yale Physicians Building.
- 04:47We have dedicated office space
- 04:49for faculty over here in grand
- 04:51rounds is held here on Cedar Street
- 04:53in the medical school complex.
- 04:55Our residents have trauma bone board
- 04:57every Wednesday morning and section
- 04:59specific conferences every Thursday
- 05:01Friday morning from 7 to 11 is dedicated
- 05:04academic time with morbid immortality,
- 05:05grand rounds, etc.
- 05:08Normally before Covid we had a
- 05:10Thursday morning conference.
- 05:11We're all together with our
- 05:12students residents pasm PTS.
- 05:14But of course,
- 05:15after covid,
- 05:15everything is on zoom like everywhere else.
- 05:18So currently we're on zoom and
- 05:20probably stay that way for the
- 05:22foreseeable future throughout the year,
- 05:24there's many education programs
- 05:25run by the residents,
- 05:26including Journal club, Sawbones Sessions,
- 05:28cadaver Labs, anatomy labs, etc.
- 05:31We try to have sawbones workshops
- 05:33periodically at least once or twice a year,
- 05:34and the past few years you've done,
- 05:36you can see here we did a total
- 05:39joint saw bone for hip and knee.
- 05:41And then recently we had the Depew
- 05:43team come through in the fall of
- 05:452020 with the mobile lab and we all
- 05:46masked up and went to the lab and
- 05:48our residents got to do hip and knee
- 05:50cases with computer assistance and
- 05:51fluoro guidance and other things that
- 05:53are new technologies were playing
- 05:54with so this is a view of us in the
- 05:56lab and so we continued even with
- 05:58their masks to have our education.
- 06:00Yellow Orthopedics is known for many things,
- 06:03one of which is the tip to apex distance
- 06:05with Mike Baumgardner and Dieter Lindskog,
- 06:08which is really set the bar
- 06:10for hip fracture management.
- 06:11Francisley runs orthopedic research
- 06:13program which is continuing to grow
- 06:15with a lot of really interesting
- 06:17projects and translation work.
- 06:18He's a very well funded researcher.
- 06:20John Grauers worked extensively publishing
- 06:22an ortho informatix and database research,
- 06:24as well as the dense classification
- 06:26scheme as shown here.
- 06:27And of course Dr. Kegan.
- 06:29I have published the direct anterior.
- 06:31Approach textbooks as shown there.
- 06:32So those are some of the
- 06:33things among many others
- 06:34that our program is known for.
- 06:36What about fun things to
- 06:37do in around New Haven?
- 06:39Of course, there's an annual
- 06:40ski trip with the residents and
- 06:41attendings that's on hold from Covid,
- 06:43but in the past it's been a
- 06:45lot of fun for a lot of people.
- 06:47Certainly working out as
- 06:48an orthopedic pastime.
- 06:48We called the orthopedic library,
- 06:50but you just have to be
- 06:51careful you don't overdo it,
- 06:52like one of our chief residents who
- 06:54used to be a former professional
- 06:56fitness model shown on the right.
- 06:58Hiking is very popular.
- 06:59The southeast coast of Connecticut
- 07:00is absolutely beautiful,
- 07:01and there's a lot of outdoor activities,
- 07:03waterfalls, lakes, coastal scenery,
- 07:04so that's really enjoyable
- 07:05and very easily accessible.
- 07:06But the thing that New Haven is
- 07:08known for more than it almost
- 07:10anything else is pizza.
- 07:11And of course,
- 07:12the claim to fame is Frank Pepe's.
- 07:14There's a lot of debate about modern
- 07:16versus bar pizza among a few others.
- 07:18There's some really wonderful
- 07:19restaurants all over the city.
- 07:20This is on the coast,
- 07:22which is called shell and bones.
- 07:23One of our favourites,
- 07:24and there's a Restaurant Week in the fall,
- 07:27so there's a lot to do,
- 07:28and there's a lot of pizza.
- 07:30Eat so it's it's good eating
- 07:32if you want to go,
- 07:33you know toe to toe with any
- 07:35other place in the country.
- 07:36USA TODAY has ranked Pepes and
- 07:38Sally's and monitoring the top 10
- 07:40to 11 and if you look at the far
- 07:42right we have five of the top 100
- 07:44pay places in the top 50 of that report.
- 07:47And so that's the famous white
- 07:49clam pizza on the bottom right of
- 07:51Pepes to show you the ovens there.
- 07:53Lots of activities include wineries
- 07:55around the state and breweries
- 07:56which have become kind of a
- 07:58really craft is kind of a boom of
- 08:00craft brewing and craft wineries.
- 08:01Alot of nice places to visit
- 08:02for picnics and family.
- 08:03Time is the football game.
- 08:05Every every fault they would yell
- 08:06bowl shown here with the Harvard Yale
- 08:08Game which is a every other year.
- 08:10Among other games that come through
- 08:11there and one of my favourites is the
- 08:13ice hockey rink over Ingalls Rink,
- 08:15shown here. It's a lot of fun.
- 08:17It's a it's a tight environment.
- 08:18Everyone is packed in there screaming
- 08:20and yelling and it's it's a lot of fun.
- 08:22You really right on the ice watching
- 08:24the players. Around New Haven.
- 08:26This many museums,
- 08:27the art Gallery and other places.
- 08:28There's three casinos within an hour
- 08:30of our locale theater and locally
- 08:32you can get to New York in about
- 08:35an hour and a half on the train.
- 08:362 hours to Boston,
- 08:37and certainly short trips to New Hampshire,
- 08:40Rhode Island, Vermont, etc.
- 08:41To enjoy New England.
- 08:43Resort casinos are very close by
- 08:45sort of dangerously close by,
- 08:46but offer a lot of fun as well
- 08:48as entertainment that come acts
- 08:50that come through performers and
- 08:52concerts and professional events,
- 08:53etc. So let's talk about the division
- 08:56of adult reconstruction for a moment.
- 08:58Our division is now staffed
- 09:00full time with my colleagues.
- 09:01Doctor Deering are soy,
- 09:03Jenna Bernstein, David Gibson, myself,
- 09:04Dan Wisnia and we have another full
- 09:07time faculty member who will be coming
- 09:10on board October 1st later this year.
- 09:12We also have emeritus faculty members.
- 09:14Chris Keggy enrich Pelcer and
- 09:16Joseph were senior members.
- 09:17It does a few days during the week in clinic,
- 09:21in the OR as well.
- 09:23We have three section piese in APR ends
- 09:25and we're looking to hire again for
- 09:27another as we expand pre covid arthroplasty.
- 09:30Case volume was about 1400
- 09:32cases as covid approach.
- 09:33We were looking at 1600 for that
- 09:35fiscal year and then we're going
- 09:38to continue growing from there.
- 09:40Announcement that Doctor O'Connor,
- 09:41who some of you may know from
- 09:43various activities in teaching,
- 09:44is departing yell in February
- 09:462021 to take on a new role in
- 09:48a national organization.
- 09:49So she's leaving our faculty at that time.
- 09:53So let's go inside the hospital bit
- 09:54SRC hazoor is one and two look like
- 09:56this as well as it may give me.
- 09:58All the hours are based on this.
- 10:00Model where we have 6 brand new
- 10:02hours that look exactly like this
- 10:04there about 660 square feet,
- 10:06highly equipped and highly adaptable
- 10:07for any type of orthopedic or spine
- 10:10case overhead videos and in the key
- 10:12rooms for capturing video and recording.
- 10:14We have a variety of technologies
- 10:16that are available,
- 10:17including our digital software,
- 10:19which is Ortho View striker NAV
- 10:21at SRC Stryker Mako which have two
- 10:23units at Milford Hospital which is
- 10:25now part of our teaching faculties
- 10:27or destinations and ciety based
- 10:29custom planning for PS I as well as
- 10:32custom implants such as conformist
- 10:34or try flanger are available.
- 10:36We want a number of words and we're
- 10:39pleased to share this with you.
- 10:40Best poster words at office in 2018.
- 10:42Top poster 2019 at the AOA.
- 10:45There's me at the August meeting
- 10:47couple years ago.
- 10:48Recently Dave Moho,
- 10:49one of our senior residences,
- 10:50worked diligently on orthopedic
- 10:52video theater.
- 10:52Ann has allowed us to win two
- 10:54awards in 2020 and 21.
- 10:56Looking at various topics
- 10:58surrounding the anterior approach.
- 11:00Our section is continued to grow.
- 11:02Our fellowship begins officially
- 11:03in August 1st,
- 11:042021 and then in October that
- 11:06year were planning to have another
- 11:08full time section faculty member
- 11:10who's contract is in progress.
- 11:12We're opening a new office North
- 11:14of New Haven and Wallingford,
- 11:16CT in fall and on going recruitment
- 11:18exists for another par section as
- 11:20well as full time faculty member at
- 11:22Greenwich Location as well as the West Haven,
- 11:25CT VAMC,
- 11:26which is mainly an arthroplasty
- 11:28service at that hospital.
- 11:30We're pleased in our residents have
- 11:32shown tremendous interest since
- 11:332017 and have pursued careers in
- 11:35arthroplasty at various fellowship programs,
- 11:37including Lenox Hill, UVANYU,
- 11:38Orthocarolina and Stanford.
- 11:39One of our chief residents is
- 11:42pursuing this fellowship next
- 11:43year at University of Ottawa,
- 11:45and we have two residents currently
- 11:48going through the match cycle.
- 11:50Our naugler arthroplasty fellow
- 11:52is doctor Eric McDonald,
- 11:53who did undergrad at UC Berkeley
- 11:55and mechanical engineering and
- 11:56study at UCSF for medical school,
- 11:58and stayed for orthopedic residency there.
- 12:00We look forward to welcoming document
- 12:03Donald in August as our first fellow.
- 12:06Section challenges I think you know
- 12:08anywhere else has similar challenges
- 12:10dealing with some of the government
- 12:12programs and insurance companies
- 12:13regarding bundles and regulations,
- 12:15and reimbursements and all
- 12:16these types of things.
- 12:18Impatient only rules,
- 12:19outpatient surgery pressures, etc.
- 12:20In our big health system,
- 12:22one of the biggest issues just simply
- 12:24coordinating all the logistics from
- 12:26the office to the OR to the discharge
- 12:29into rehab all those types of things.
- 12:31Trying to make it all electronic
- 12:33and seamless for the patient.
- 12:35We're working on standardizing updating
- 12:37our forms policies and procedures to
- 12:39make them all electronic and make it all
- 12:41flow well for that patients experience.
- 12:43We're now using electronic case
- 12:45booking forms and consent forms,
- 12:46and we have a new phone triage system
- 12:48that is matched to our very large
- 12:51practice to help manage the call volumes.
- 12:54Some of the section news were part
- 12:56of the AJRR as we are one of the
- 12:58largest contributors in the state of
- 13:00Connecticut across the whole yield system,
- 13:02we have maintained,
- 13:03achieved and maintained advanced
- 13:05certification for hip replacement as
- 13:07well as knee replaced in Witcher 2
- 13:09separate programs and our hospital at
- 13:10SRC actually has five Joint Commission
- 13:12programs for hip and knee replacement
- 13:14as well as total shoulder replacement,
- 13:16spine surgery and hip
- 13:17fracture and accordingly,
- 13:18when we got the hip fracture
- 13:20program certification,
- 13:20we became the only hospital in the US
- 13:23that has all five of those under one roof.
- 13:26And I think that really lends itself
- 13:28to the experience of the hospital
- 13:30as well as the experience of our
- 13:32residents and PA staff managing
- 13:34those cases along with us.
- 13:36Just a little introduction to some
- 13:38of our faculty on some of the
- 13:40things that they're working on.
- 13:42Dan Wisnia is assistant professor looking
- 13:44at School of Engineering projects and
- 13:46he has dual appointments for teaching
- 13:48at both parts of the University.
- 13:50Teachers are really nice undergrad slash
- 13:52graduate course in orthopedic implant design,
- 13:54which we've got a chance to teach at
- 13:56Dan has gotten funding for research
- 13:57through the YCC I grant program
- 13:59looking at computational modeling
- 14:01for treatment of femur prosthetic
- 14:03fractures and using a supercomputer
- 14:05to do some of those things.
- 14:08He's got four projects that have been
- 14:10accepted at the OS meeting this February,
- 14:12as shown here,
- 14:13so some really interesting work
- 14:15in progress across some of the
- 14:17department's that we have during
- 14:19our soy is assistant professor.
- 14:21He's AAA train in arthroplasty,
- 14:22trauma, and hip preservation.
- 14:24He does PCOS, hip Arthroscopy,
- 14:25as well as primary and complex
- 14:27during placement. As an interest.
- 14:29Of course in hip preservation,
- 14:31FA ion is working a number of projects
- 14:33associated with assessment of Cam
- 14:35lesions and predictive modeling,
- 14:37etc. After Gibson is a clinical
- 14:39associate professor of research.
- 14:41Interest had been published on
- 14:42negative pressure wound therapy
- 14:44for hip and knee replacement.
- 14:45Looking at race and outcomes following
- 14:47total joint surgery as well as
- 14:49disparities in orthopedics and looking
- 14:51at simultaneous bilateral surgeries,
- 14:52which Doctor Gibson has done hundreds
- 14:55or thousands of over the years.
- 14:57Now to Bernstein's assistant professor
- 14:59at one of our newest surgeons here
- 15:01started practice on September 1st, 2020.
- 15:03She's now been appointed as the Co.
- 15:05Director of the Yale Hip Fracture Program,
- 15:08as well as working with me on the
- 15:10orthopedic infection Workgroup.
- 15:11She has some projects in health
- 15:13and gender disparities,
- 15:14as well as an active membership in the
- 15:17Ocas women in Arthroplasty Committee.
- 15:20Myself,
- 15:20I've been working on looking at
- 15:21the value of fellowship and a
- 15:23few projects surrounding outcomes
- 15:25related to fellowship training,
- 15:26and I'm very involved Doctor Grauer in
- 15:29our research group which meets on Friday
- 15:31mornings with students and residents.
- 15:33We have two full time medical
- 15:34student researchers per year
- 15:36looking at large database research,
- 15:38nesquik national inpatient sample,
- 15:39national readmission database,
- 15:40the Open Payments database,
- 15:41the PNP,
- 15:42which is their narcotics database
- 15:43in the state of Connecticut.
- 15:45Pearl diver in Covid databases,
- 15:47and we're constantly plugging
- 15:48through some of those things to.
- 15:50Look at outcomes into various
- 15:53research questions.
- 15:54I'm very pleased to talk about the
- 15:56total hip book that we published on the
- 15:58direct anterior approach with Doctor Keggy.
- 16:00We launched that in 2016.
- 16:01Really it was received very well
- 16:03by the orthopedic community,
- 16:04for which I'm grateful and with
- 16:06Doctor Door who recently just passed,
- 16:07called it that Bible, he said,
- 16:09would be the Bible for anterior surgeons,
- 16:11and certainly believe that's the case.
- 16:13The publisher also believes that the case,
- 16:15and they've renewed the book,
- 16:16and we have a second edition
- 16:18forthcoming in late 2021.
- 16:20I published a hip replacement book for
- 16:22patients in June 2019 and a similar
- 16:24book looking at knee replacement is
- 16:26forthcoming from the Johns Hopkins Press.
- 16:29We have a number of active research
- 16:31protocols and this is just a sampling of
- 16:34the many things that are going on at Yale.
- 16:37There's sort of too many to list,
- 16:39but lots of interesting projects that
- 16:41are going on everything from database
- 16:43research to anesthesia research,
- 16:44infectious disease research, Nurse Navigator,
- 16:46an optimization, anemia protocols,
- 16:47navigation research, other things.
- 16:50Some of the programs.
- 16:51Of course,
- 16:52the highlights are the
- 16:53Nurse Navigator program.
- 16:54We had, foreigners,
- 16:55navigators,
- 16:55we keep expanding to a few more and
- 16:57it's expanding across various sites.
- 16:59We published our data on our initial
- 17:01pilot series in the Journal of
- 17:03Arthroplasty and submitting a larger
- 17:05series soon to the nursing Journal.
- 17:07Our nurses are very enthusiastic
- 17:08members of our division and really
- 17:09work very closely with our patients.
- 17:11So it's a model the fellow
- 17:13will be exposed to.
- 17:15Just as an example,
- 17:16our first 100 patients
- 17:17had outcomes shown here,
- 17:19whereby the historical cohort
- 17:20did not do quite as well
- 17:22as the optimization cohort with the nurse
- 17:25interventions really reduce the length
- 17:26of stay the ER visits at 30 or 90 days,
- 17:29and we had a preponderance of discharge
- 17:31to home, we publish that data.
- 17:33In fact, locally at Yell,
- 17:35there's an annual clinical redesign
- 17:37nursing submission in the hospital
- 17:38system for quality improvement.
- 17:39We won the award in 2019 for our projects.
- 17:43Another interesting project was the
- 17:45Mcgivney Advanced Surgery Center,
- 17:46which is our outpatient program.
- 17:48This was a former cancer treatment center
- 17:50that was repurposed from orthopedics under
- 17:52the direction of Mirror Connor and others,
- 17:54and now we have six hours
- 17:56in a procedure suite.
- 17:57It's right at our SRC campus in
- 18:00the patients can pull right in.
- 18:02There is valet parking.
- 18:03All the equipment is shared with
- 18:05ormeno or through a commonly shared an
- 18:07updated sterile supply in the basement,
- 18:09and just as an example in our first
- 18:12year I did 61 total cases over there.
- 18:14Including partial knees,
- 18:15total knees and total hips, and overall,
- 18:17we had two ER visits in one patient.
- 18:20No re admissions,
- 18:20SSI or reoperations.
- 18:21The second year is continued,
- 18:23and at this point I'm doing about
- 18:2530% of all of my cases outpatient and
- 18:27about 60% of my surgeries for all
- 18:29hip and knee or home the next day.
- 18:32So it's really had a pretty big impact
- 18:34on our our practice of arthoplasty yell,
- 18:37and we've worked with Doctor Jen Lilley
- 18:39who directs our Anesthesia Fellowship,
- 18:41nerve block protocols to publish some
- 18:44of our experiences here as shown.
- 18:47In the community we've been involved
- 18:49with the Arthritis Foundation
- 18:50as a nice partnership.
- 18:51Each year,
- 18:51we've sponsored or participated
- 18:53in the Jingle Bell Run,
- 18:54which is held locally to raise
- 18:55money for the Arthritis Foundation
- 18:57to benefit our patients for
- 18:58education and also to fund research.
- 19:00So this is our team in 2019,
- 19:02on a very cold day,
- 19:04we raised a good deal of money and
- 19:06we helped raise quite a bit of
- 19:09money for the Arthritis Foundation.
- 19:11Doctor Kelly has a long history
- 19:13with our program.
- 19:14It's worth mentioning the International
- 19:16Fund for Orthopedic education.
- 19:17Doctor Keg is still active with our
- 19:19group as a professor emeritus and does
- 19:22quite a bit of fund raising and development.
- 19:25His history is that the key orthopedic
- 19:27foundation was based in Waterbury, CT,
- 19:30an affiliate with Waterbury Hospital,
- 19:31but had a partnership with the
- 19:34University and help trained residents
- 19:35as well as US surgeon such as myself.
- 19:38In fact,
- 19:39in arthroplasty hosted numerous fellows,
- 19:40almost 250 from overseas.
- 19:42Especially in the Baltic nations.
- 19:45As well as from Russia,
- 19:46Vietnam etc.
- 19:47Over many many years.
- 19:48In addition,
- 19:48he traveled and did lectures and teaching
- 19:51all over the all over the world.
- 19:53And when he came down to yell,
- 19:55he moved that program down.
- 19:56Here he was awarded the 2019 Humanitarian
- 19:58Award from the connected with.
- 20:00Society is shown and some wonderful
- 20:02words displayed here about Doctor Kagan.
- 20:05His background.
- 20:07We've been pleased in the
- 20:08first couple of years since
- 20:10we restarted the program directly at
- 20:12Yale New Haven Hospital in partnership
- 20:14with the Yale University School of
- 20:16Medicine to host individuals from Turkey,
- 20:18China, Republic of Georgia,
- 20:19Vietnam, and Latvia. Our program.
- 20:20Of course, this year,
- 20:22during Covid is suspended,
- 20:23but we have great interest for
- 20:25from all over the world.
- 20:26To continue this and we look forward to
- 20:29hosting our international Fellows once again.
- 20:32This is an example for Doctor
- 20:34Huang from Vietnam.
- 20:35He and his wife were visiting with us
- 20:37and we're able to bring together art
- 20:39endings and spouses an residents and
- 20:42have a wonderful going away dinner to
- 20:44celebrate his three months with us.
- 20:46Present gifts and exchange
- 20:48ideas and and really,
- 20:49it's a nice exchange of of cultural
- 20:51traditions as well as surgical traditions,
- 20:53and I think it enriches
- 20:55the experience at Yale.
- 20:57I got the chance as a faculty member
- 20:59to travel to Lafia and meets with
- 21:01the Department to do some teaching
- 21:02there under the guise of this program
- 21:04and you can see I was able to take
- 21:06in some of the cultural elements
- 21:08of the city and travel with Doctor
- 21:10scooters around locally in the country
- 21:12to learn more about the country.
- 21:13In addition,
- 21:14I traveled to the National Congress
- 21:16of Costa Rica,
- 21:16North Peak Society in the fall
- 21:18of 2019 in similar manner,
- 21:19did some teaching and traveling,
- 21:21and it was really a wonderful experience.
- 21:22So we're looking to have our
- 21:24fellowship be funded for two weeks
- 21:26so that our fellow will be able to.
- 21:28Pick a destination that is focused in
- 21:31arthroplasty and travel in a fully
- 21:33funded manner for two weeks in the
- 21:35second half of the fellowship year.
- 21:37A brief word about the fellowship
- 21:39benefits here at Yale.
- 21:41This was updated recently,
- 21:42so these are the current pgy
- 21:446 salaries as shown in.
- 21:45This usually increases a few
- 21:46percentage points a year.
- 21:48Salary comparison certainly is more
- 21:49more value for the dollar in New Haven.
- 21:52Places like New York or Boston,
- 21:53so it's a little bit easier to live
- 21:55or rent with the family locally
- 21:57in our in our communities,
- 21:59which is I think is very attractive
- 22:01feature as well as coastline living.
- 22:03Other things.
- 22:03Vacation is listed as two to four
- 22:05weeks and we'll talk about that
- 22:07in a minute professionally.
- 22:08We can talk about it as needed.
- 22:11Housing is not provided.
- 22:12Moving expenses or not provided
- 22:13an just a word of note.
- 22:15Young Haven Hospital does specify that
- 22:17drug testing is required just as an FY I.
- 22:20Conference time is estimated for two
- 22:22weeks for travel to major meetings
- 22:24like the iOS or the office group.
- 22:27I usually teach at the ICR anti
- 22:29Hip course which is held each
- 22:31October as well as this industry
- 22:32funded fellowship training courses.
- 22:35Of course,
- 22:35we anticipate vacation for about 2 weeks,
- 22:38including the Yellow Medicine
- 22:39week of the holiday recess,
- 22:41as well as two weeks of funded travel.
- 22:43From the generosity of the Kimball
- 22:46Fund International orthopedics.
- 22:48Call will be expected in
- 22:49terms of the faculty member
- 22:51taking call in the hip fracture called Panel.
- 22:53The fellow will participate as a junior
- 22:55faculty member in that call panel as
- 22:57the year goes on and we're currently
- 22:59formulating a total joint call panel,
- 23:01much like we have a pediatric on call
- 23:03and spine panel and hand panel, etc.
- 23:05The volume of our cases really warrants
- 23:07this moving forward as we grow our
- 23:09faculty office in clinic will be
- 23:11targeted to AC Jimmy average of 1
- 23:13day per week with the faculty on the
- 23:15service and rounding is expected with
- 23:17the resident team during the week.
- 23:19A research they'll be involved in
- 23:21course with at least one project,
- 23:23and there's many,
- 23:24many things going on at our institution,
- 23:26so we expect to see participation
- 23:29at national level.
- 23:30Fellowship responsibilities will
- 23:31be teaching in our weekly Thursday
- 23:33morning conference that's the
- 23:35resident LED conference.
- 23:36We also will host the
- 23:38complex slash revision case.
- 23:39Conference will be fellow LED
- 23:41conference focused on the details
- 23:43of individual revision cases.
- 23:44There will be annual didactic lectures
- 23:46in the resident academic calendar to
- 23:48participate in surrounding arthroplasty.
- 23:50Monthly Arthroplasty,
- 23:51Fellowship Consortium,
- 23:51which we participate online with
- 23:53many other programs.
- 23:54There's certainly medical
- 23:55students and residents,
- 23:56and PA is rotating with
- 23:58us almost all the time.
- 24:00And then weekly conference participation
- 24:02at the main program with grand rounds
- 24:05and monthly Eminem academic appointment.
- 24:07Fellows are clinical instructors,
- 24:08orthopedic surgery at Yale School of
- 24:11Medicine will be appointed accordingly.
- 24:13So in summary,
- 24:14we have one fellowship program
- 24:16trainee per year at Yale and will
- 24:19complement the resident program,
- 24:21which has 25 residents.
- 24:22We will emphasize mentorship and
- 24:24professional development of that
- 24:26individual according to their own needs,
- 24:28will highlight the decision making
- 24:30process in total joint arthroplasty
- 24:32with critical thinking skills,
- 24:34especially focused on complex
- 24:35cases in revision cases.
- 24:37Individualized training will
- 24:38be accomplished with graduated
- 24:40responsibilities and called duties.
- 24:41To prepare the fellow for
- 24:43independent practice.
- 24:44And there will be a rapid
- 24:46transition towards that independent
- 24:47practice throughout the year.
- 24:48I think it will be a responsive
- 24:50and adaptive training experience,
- 24:51and we'll get to hear more from
- 24:53our new fellow next year who will
- 24:55provide some input on that as well.
- 24:58Just a word about case volumes or
- 25:00division currently is performing
- 25:01about 1600 cases per year at the
- 25:03main hospital Young Haven Hospital.
- 25:05In addition to that,
- 25:06separately we have 500 hip fracture
- 25:08cases per year that come through.
- 25:10We run the OR for that,
- 25:11almost on a daily basis.
- 25:13We're planning for approximately 1800
- 25:15to 2000 cases as of a year from now
- 25:17as we have the additional faculty
- 25:19member on board and COVID is resolved
- 25:21of fellow should expect to perform
- 25:235 to 600 cases with an estimate 15
- 25:26to 20% complex and revision work.
- 25:29In terms of our vendors for primary,
- 25:31hip and knee,
- 25:32we have contract with five vendors including
- 25:35Tip you Exact Smith and Nephew Stryker,
- 25:37and Zimmer.
- 25:37Conformance is also on this list.
- 25:39Revision and infection cases.
- 25:41We can basically pull implants from
- 25:43any company as needed,
- 25:44but we certainly work with those
- 25:46main 5 vendors and we update those
- 25:49contracts systemwide across our
- 25:50seven hospitals every two years.
- 25:52Our key focus areas are direct anterior
- 25:54approach with expert instruction.
- 25:56We also have a busy unit
- 25:58Unicompartmental program.
- 25:58Outpatient arthroplasty programs,
- 25:59which the fellow will participate in.
- 26:01We have a total joint Nurse Navigator
- 26:03program which is evolving and has
- 26:05come quite a long way which will
- 26:08benefit the education the fellow
- 26:09and the care of the patient.
- 26:11We have 15 to 20% of our cases
- 26:14are complex and revision joints.
- 26:15We deal with quite a number of
- 26:17infections and Perry prosthetic
- 26:19fractures and almost not a week
- 26:21goes by or we have more than.
- 26:23We don't have more than a few of these
- 26:25coming in almost a weekly basis exposure.
- 26:28Various technology,
- 26:29including PS.
- 26:29I custom implant navigation,
- 26:31robotics,
- 26:31etc will be incorporated as part of
- 26:33the experience and we have a very
- 26:36busy hip fracture program here,
- 26:37which is a certified program with
- 26:39more than 500 cases per year in
- 26:41outcomes that are tracked and numerous
- 26:44studies presented on those things.
- 26:46We have extensive academic and research
- 26:48opportunities and we have embraced the
- 26:50video option for fellowship interviews,
- 26:52even pre covid.
- 26:53And of course this year is all remote access.
- 26:56You know interviewing because of covid.
- 26:59And the unique feature as well to
- 27:01highlight before once again before
- 27:03we finish that we have a self funded
- 27:05experience for two weeks for arthroplasty,
- 27:07fell to designate a destination
- 27:08somewhere in the world that they
- 27:10can define based on their interests.
- 27:12It can be in Europe, in Africa and Asia, etc.
- 27:15South America.
- 27:15Wherever you'd like to go,
- 27:17you have to have a structured program,
- 27:19a mentorship and a mentor in that location,
- 27:21which will host Yuan will fund it.
- 27:24And we look forward to that being
- 27:25a really primary experience for
- 27:27our fellow and a really unique
- 27:29fellowship experience that I don't
- 27:31think to my knowledge is present.
- 27:32In any other fellowship in the
- 27:34United States at this time.
- 27:36Important note for the match guideline,
- 27:38the Fellowship candidates are prohibited
- 27:39from making any statements about
- 27:41the ranking process and we are not
- 27:42allowed to reach out after the fellowship.
- 27:44So we hope that you will ask the questions
- 27:47during the interview that can be answered.
- 27:49If there's any questions,
- 27:50please bring those up during your
- 27:51session and please see the Office Code
- 27:53of Conduct Sheet which outlines those.
- 27:55Of course I want to stop here and say
- 27:57thank you for reviewing our program.
- 27:59My contact information is presented here.
- 28:01If you need to reach me through
- 28:03email is probably the best bet
- 28:05or through my assistant.
- 28:06We wish everyone luck in the match
- 28:08and we thank you for taking the time
- 28:10to review this program and learn
- 28:12about our Earth Posse Fellowship.
- 28:13We're excited to share that information
- 28:15and look forward to meeting.
- 28:16Thank you.