Supplemental Courses

In the first year of the program, residents attend an AO review course on the upper and lower extremities, as well as a Boston Pathology course. In the second year of residency, students attend the Dallas Short course Orthotics & Prosthetics. They also attend the AANA Fundamental Skills in Arthroscopy Resident Course. In the third year, they attend the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' Annual Meeting. Their fourth year includes attendance at the Maine Orthopaedic Review Course.

Residents who have prepared a paper for presentation are sent to any approved program in the United States where the paper has been accepted for presentation. The Murray S. Danforth Visiting Professorship is named in honor of our founding Chief of Orthopaedics at Rhode Island Hospital. Each year, an internationally recognized orthopaedic surgeon is invited as Surgeon-in-Chief Pro Tempore and Visiting Professor at Brown University.

Visiting lecturers also participate in Grand Rounds and usually arrive at monthly intervals throughout the year. Distinguished guests present our Basic Science series, and several outside guests present specialty seminars each semester.

The anatomy course is taught every fall under the supervision of a Brown Professor of Anatomy. Also included are weekly conferences in hand, pediatric orthopaedics, trauma, adult reconstruction, spine, and sports medicine. Monthly conferences include radiology and pathology.