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Baylor College of Medicine

Department of Orthopedic Surgery

Academic Office

• Department Chair
• Thomas Hunt, III, MD, DSc
• Program Director
• Melvyn Harrington, MD
• Program Manager
• Mr. Desi Griffin
• desig@bcm.edu

A little bit about us . . .

• 6 residents a year
• Diverse group
• Mentorship – Faculty

and Resident

• Operative heavy

program in the largest medical center in the world.

• Lots of research
• pportunities

Located in the Texas Medical Center

Baylor St. Luke’s McNair Campus

• Joints
• PGY III
• Hand
• PGY III
• Sports
• PGY III & PGY IV
• Foot & Ankle
• PGY II & PGY IV
• Community Trauma
• PGY V

Ben Taub General Hospital

• Level 1 – County Trauma Center
• Resident run Service
• 2000 cases/yr
• Residents:
• 2 PGY V
• 1 PGY IV
• 1 PGY III,
• 3 PGY II
• 1 or 2 PGY I
• 7 Faculty
• Primarily trauma cases
• Elective Hand, Sports and Spine

VA Medical Center

• Largest VA hospital in

country

• Busiest VA ortho service

in the country

• Residents
• 2 PGY Vs
• 1 PGY IV
• 1 PGY II
• 1 PGY 1
• 7 faculty
• Elective Sports, Joints,

Spine, Hand, Foot & Ankle, Geriatric

Texas Children’s Hospital

• Largest Free Standing

Pediatric hospital in the country

• Residents:
• PGY I, II, IV
• Growing faculty
• West Campus

(Sports/Trauma)

• PGY III

MD Anderson Cancer Center

• World leading center

for cancer patient care and research

• 8 week rotation in
• rthopedic oncology

as PGY 3 resident

• 6 Faculty

Academics

• Wednesday Morning Conferences
• Year-long comprehensive

curriculum

• Orthobullets Program
• Daily Questions & reading
• Self Assessment exams
• Friday Grand Rounds
• Weekly Subspecialty Conferences
• Every subspecialty, every week
• Specialty specific Journal Club

Academics

• Surgical Skills Curriculum
• Required for Interns
• Strongly suggested for PGY 2s
• Thursday evening sessions every

month throughout the year

• BCM Surgical Simulation Center
• VirtaMed ArthroS arthroscopy

simulator

• Knee Module
• Shoulder Module

Research

• Requirements:
• One resident research

project

• One quality improvement

project

• Research Support:
• Research Chief Resident
• Research Committee
• >60 days of protected time
• Quarterly Research

Meetings Mo Halawi, MD Director of Resident Research

Mentorship

• Resident Mentor
• Assigned as a PGY 1
• Matched with a PGY 3
• First point of contact
• Faculty Mentor
• Meet after every rotation
• Formal or informal
• Breakfast with the Chair &

PD

• Quarterly informal chat

session

Post-Residency

• ~50% of Baylor graduates are in academic positions
• 96% residents pursue subspecialty fellowships at top institutions
• Subspecialties
• Hand
• Stanford, U Washington, Duke, Pittsburgh, Brown, Medical

College of Wisconsin, Colorado, UAB, UCSD, New Mexico, BCM

• Spine
• Harvard, Jefferson, Emory, Wisconsin, NYU, U of Washington
• Joints
• HSS, Rush, NE Baptist, Wash U, FOI, Anderson Clinic, CC

Florida, UPENN, NYU, Mayo-Jacksonville

• Sports
• Emory, Lennox Hill, ASMI (Andrews), Stedman-Hawkins,

Michigan

• Tumor
• MD Anderson
• Pediatrics
• Columbia, TCH, Texas Scottish Rite
• Trauma
• Miami, UT Chattanooga, UCSF, Tampa
• Foot and Ankle
• FOARR, Union Memorial, Stanford

Shoulder & Elbow

• Rush, University of Washington

Omar Attassi, MD PGY1 - Faculty

Welcome to BCM Orthopedics!

WORK HARD

LEARN OPERATE

Lasting Memories

Good Luck!

https://www.bcm.edu/departments/orthopedic- surgery/education/orthopedic-surgery-residency Twitter: @BCMOrthoRes, @BCM_OrthoSports IG: bcmorthores, bcm_orthosports