Shoulder and Elbow Fellowship Descriptions

University of Florida Shoulder and Elbow Fellowship

Thomas W. Wright, MD
Attent: M. Louise Stewart
University of Florida
PO Box 112727
Gainesville, FL 32611-2727
Telephone: 352-273-7375
FAX: 352-273-7388
Email: Stewaml@ortho.ufl.edu

Fellowship Description

Physicians:
Thomas W. Wright, MD (Fellowship Director)
Michael Moser, MD
Kevin Farmer, MD

Hospital:
Shands @ The University of Florida, Level I Trauma Center

Length:
1 academic year beginning on August 1

Number of Fellows:
1 Fellow per year

Rotations:
1 rotation:         Monday and Tuesday-outpatient Sports Medicine Shoulder Service
Wednesday thru Friday-Arthroplasty, trauma, inpatient, shoulder and elbow
 Service

Fellowship Description:
The University of Florida Shoulder and Elbow fellowship is located in Gainesville, Florida. It is designed to offer one fellow per year a comprehensive exposure to all aspects of shoulder and elbow surgery. The fellow will rotate with three full time faculty all who have a high volume of shoulder and elbow cases. One of the faculty have a strong practice divided equally between should and elbow reconstructive surgery and arthroscopy. Two of the faculty member’s practice involves sports medicine and arthroscopic surgery of the shoulder and elbow, and are responsible for the care of the University of Florida (Gators) athletic teams. The fellow is actively involved in all aspects of the patient’s care from evaluation and decision making to the actual surgical procedure.

The University of Florida is a Level I trauma Center and Burn Center. The fellow will treat complex elbow and shoulder trauma generated by these centers both in the acute phases and delayed reconstruction. The fellowship is educationally oriented and at this time no mandatory night call is planned.

Didactic conferences include two conferences a month on upper extremity surgery, once weekly fracture conference, and journal club two times a month. The fellow is expected to write one research paper of publishable quality during the time at the University of Florida. There are no significant clinical research resources available to facilitate this research. Facilities available to the fellow and housed directly in the Department of Orthopaedics include a biomechanics lab, motion analysis lab, gene therapy lab, stem cell research lab, and a surgical skills lab. We anticipate that the fellow will have 10% to 20% of the work week assigned for research and educational purposes. The fellowship will sponsor travel to one national and one regional meeting per year.

 

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