Introduction

The final year of the Brown University Orthopaedic Training Program ensures that our graduates become skillful, experienced surgeons before they leave Brown. After completing their Chief Residency, our trainees spend another year at Rhode Island Hospital as Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery Fellows. This year is divided between an extensive exposure to the evaluation and management of musculoskeletal injuries, and time for clinical and laboratory research, typically expanding upon projects begun during the residency years. This fellowship is not open to applicants from outside of Brown.

Clinically, Brown’s Trauma Fellows function as attending surgeons. They have independent surgical privileges, with commensurate responsibilities for patient care. Consultation and support from the senior faculty are readily available, since a senior faculty member is always on-call with the Trauma Fellow.

The Trauma Fellowship is directed by Rhode Island Hospital’s Surgeon-in-Charge of Orthopaedic Trauma, Professor Christopher Born, MD. Weekly trauma fellow meetings, trauma service patient review conference, and frequent ad hoc case discussions to address patient management and pre-operative planning, and the weekly resident trauma teaching conferences all provide ample opportunity for our Trauma Fellows to learn as much as possible from their rich clinical experience.

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