Shoulder and Elbow Fellowship Descriptions

University of Florida Shoulder and Elbow Fellowship

Thomas Wright MD
University of Florida
PO Box 112727
Gainesville, Fl. 32611-2727
Phone 352-273-7375
E-mail wrightw@ortho.ufl.edu

Fellowship Description:
The University of Florida Shoulder and Elbow fellowship located in Gainesville Florida 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. Two of the faculty has a strong practice divided equally between shoulder and elbow reconstructive surgery and arthroscopy.
The final faculty member’s practice involves sports medicine and arthroscopic surgery of the shoulder and elbow. He is one of two physicians
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 One 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 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 education purposes. The fellowship will sponsor travel to one national and one regional
meeting per year.

The fellowship is of one year duration commencing on August 1^st of each year.

 

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