Here at Atlanta Medical Center resident education is one of the many strong points of the program.  The nature and breadth of resident exposure at AMC’s program requires our residents to be dispersed throughout the city of Atlanta allowing them to work with many of our world class faculty.  As such AMC is on the cutting edge of technology allowing our residents and faculty “virtual attendance” to our live feed conferences on their residency administered iPads.  Faculty are no longer expected to battle traffic and their busy schedules to give presentations to residents, but can present from the comfort of their homes, office or anywhere in the world.  This gives AMC the opportunity for world renowned speakers to present on any given day. 

Monday
Atlanta Medical Center
6:15 – 7:00 a.m. – X-ray Trauma Rounds (Weekend Review)
7:00 – 7:30 a.m. – Floor Rounds

Scottish Rite Hospital
7:30 – 8:30 a.m. – Pre-op conference, review cases for the week. Residents are expected to present their cases for the week to the entire group. The resident is expected to prepare for questions about the cases.

Tuesday
Atlanta Medical Center
6:15 – 7:00 a.m. – Webex Lectures Live Feed Teleconference
7:00 – 7:30 a.m. – X-ray rounds

Wednesday
Atlanta Medical Center
6:15 – 7:00 a.m. – X-ray rounds
7:00 – 8:00 a.m.

1st Wednesday of each month – Chief’s conference, review future clinic cases with attendings
2nd Wednesday of each month – Orthopaedic Surgery Department Meeting
3rd Wednesday of each month – M & M
4th/5th Wednesday of each month – Review cases, lectures, pathology

Scottish Rite Hospital
 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. – Core conference lecture by attendings, fellows, or residents

Thursday
Atlanta Medical Center
6:15 – 7:00 a.m. – Webex Lectures Live Feed Teleconference
7:00 – 7:30 a.m. – X-ray rounds

Oncology
5:00 – 7:00 p.m. – Tumor Board – Review future and past cases with multiple disciplines including orthopedics, pathology, hematology/oncology, radiation oncology, radiology and general surgery

Scottish Rite Hospital
7:30 – 8:30 a.m. – Rotating Thursday Conferences including Radiology, Hand Conference, Pathology Conference and Indications Conference.
  
Friday
Atlanta Medical Center
 6:15 – 7:00 a.m. – Webex Lectures Live Feed Teleconference 
 7:00 – 7:30 a.m. – X-ray rounds
 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. – Cadaveric Surgical Skills Laboratory/Lecture

Scottish Rite Hospital 
7:30 – 8:30 a.m. – Post-operative conference, review all the previous weeks’ cases. Residents are expected to prepare for and present these cases.

Other
Hand
Journal Club - 2 times per year, led by Dr. Gary Lourie and attended by all hand attendings.
Pediatric Hand Conference – Dr. Peljovich lectures on pediatric orthopaedics once a month at Scottish Rite Hospital.

Scottish Rite Hospital
Journal Club – Held once a month

Sports Medicine
Sports Medicine Journal Club – Once a month with Dr. Kane/Dr. Gillogly

Clinical Topics – discussed at length before clinic/surgery and during clinic/surgery, based on readings from sports medicine texts and multiple research articles.

Adult Reconstruction
Monthly Journal Club.

Research
The residents have regular interactions with Dr. Ganey regarding research opportunities. In particular technologies that afford opportunities to engage and review innovations in regenerative medicine are a key focus. Genetic diagnostics, cell-based therapeutics, and novel biomaterials have been identified as key areas of translational medicine initiatives.