Course Overview
The ELiTE Resident and Fellow Curriculum was designed by Jeffrey Greenberg, MD, Fellowship Director at Indiana Hand to Shoulder Center, and Jerry Huang, MD, Fellowship Director at University of Washington Combined Hand Fellowship, in collaboration with leading orthopedic resident and fellowship educators in the United States.
The Advanced Hand and Wrist Resident and Fellow Course is a full-day cadaveric program with didactic lectures, case review, and hands-on surgical skills practice time.
Target Audience
This course is intended for orthopedic residents in their 5th year, who can apply their learnings within 1 month following the course and will be attending a Hand Fellowship program.
Learning Objectives
Hand
- Evaluate and understand surgical treatment options for articular fractures and proximal interphalangeal joint fractures.
- Evaluate and understand surgical treatment options for complex thumb metacarpal base fractures.
- Understand the principles and treatment options of metacarpal and phalangeal malunions and nonunions.
- Understand the indications, anatomy and surgical dissections for local hand and forearm flaps.
- Evaluate and develop treatment strategies for the mangled hand, and secondary reconstructions.
Wrist
- Evaluation and recognition of complex fracture patterns in the distal radius and indications for fragment specific fixation.
- Understand treatment options of ulnar styloid fractures and biomechanics of DRUJ Instability.
- Understand surgical treatment options for scaphoid nonunions, Kienbock’s disease, and scapholunate ligament injuries.
- Understand the pathophysiology and treatment options for ulnocarpal abutment.
- Evaluate and treat SLAC/SNAC wrist
- Understand surgical treatment options for DRUJ arthritis.
Course Chair
Jonathan Tueting, MD: RUSH Copley – Castle Orthopedics & Sports Medicine
Course Faculty
Steven Niedermeier, MD: North Texas Orthopedics and Spine Center