Yale Arthroplasty Fellowship

The Hip & Knee Joint Reconstruction Division of the Yale Department of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation is honored to host the Yale Hip & Knee Arthroplasty Fellowship, focused on advanced training in Hip and Knee Reconstruction, for the cycle matching in April 2026, which will commence training on August 1, 2027. A single (1) fellowship position is available. Applicants will have completed residency training in Orthopaedic Surgery in the United States, UK, or Canada, and MUST be eligible for a Connecticut medical license (Our program is Non-ACGME). Application and Interview Notification Deadlines will be the AAHKS match program Deadlines.

The Yale Arthroplasty Fellow will be directly involved with the clinical care, teaching, and research activities of the Division. Applicants are expected to have demonstrated excellence and involvement in these core activities. The fellowship will be supervised by our core clinical faculty at the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, with rotation to other affiliated community sites, and is sponsored in close partnership with Yale New Haven Hospital. The Yale Arthroplasty Fellow will be credentialed as a Clinical Instructor of Orthopaedic Surgery. Education of rotating Yale Orthopaedic Surgery residents (PGY-1, 3, and 5 on service), Yale Medical Students, Visiting Sub-Interns, and PA/APRN Staff is expected. The Arthroplasty fellow will be expected to participate in research activity and compose at least one original project during the year of training that can be presented at the annual Yale Orthopaedics Fellowship Research Symposium in June, and also should be submitted & published to the scientific community.

The Yale Hip & Knee Arthroplasty Fellowship commenced with our first fellow in August 2021, and we are now entering our 7th Match cycle. Highlights of our program include Expert Direct Anterior Approach instruction for Primary and Revision Arthroplasty, in addition to Posterior and Lateral Hip Approach training. The fellowship features extensive hip and knee revision experience, a state-of-the-art Outpatient Arthroplasty Facility, Partial Knee Arthroplasty training, Hip Preservation Surgery, Bio-Medical Engineering Collaboration, Total Joint Nurse Navigator Program exposure, and use of custom PSI, robotic, and computer navigation technologies for selected cases. The fellow will participate actively in our busy Hip Fracture Program and also help manage the many peri-prosthetic fractures, infections, and complex cases that are routinely referred into and treated at our center. On average, our first 4 fellows completed 550-600 cases with 25-30% Complex Primary and Revision Joint Arthroplasty Volume.

The fellow will be exposed to tertiary academic arthroplasty practice in addition to time spent in community hospital based practices during the training year. Opportunities also exist for the fellow to participate in joint replacement program management meetings with the program director and other faculty members, both locally in New Haven, and spanning across the Yale New Haven Health System of Hospitals.

Our program has a unique partnership to expose the arthroplasty fellow to concepts of Global Orthopaedics, via an international visiting surgeon program that is based at Yale in the Division of Hip & Knee Reconstruction which hosts young surgeons from around the world. In addition, the Yale Arthroplasty Fellow will be able to design and propose a funded two-week international arthroplasty traveling fellowship experience during the second half of the fellowship training year. These unique programs are sponsored by generous support from the "Keggi-Kimball Fund for International Orthopaedic Education" at Yale University. PLEASE NOTE: Candidates selected for interviews should carefully consider how they would utilize this international traveling fellowship and present their proposed idea to the PD during the interview process. A surgeon mentor must be identified for each visiting site to ensure the educational value of the travel experience, and the fellow will present their experiences and observations to the faculty after their travels as part of the graduation process.

All interviews for the Yale Hip & Knee Arthroplasty Fellowship will be held in person on Friday, March 13, 2026, and all applicants must utilize the SF Match Website. Additional fellowship information and reference materials will be updated and placed onto our website along with a summary presentation video to help applicants become familiar with the program. Case volume numbers and other key program details will be highlighted in the program presentation video.