St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Orthopedic Surgery Residency Program
The primary mission of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery is to provide care of the highest quality to all orthopedic patients presenting to St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, regardless of the patient’s race, religion, sexual orientation or ability to pay. To accomplish this task, we have an outstanding attending staff with fellowship training in all of the subspecialties of orthopedic surgery, and most hold teaching appointments at Columbia’s College of Physicians & Surgeons, including some with the rank of clinical professor.
The Hospital Center maintains a close academic affiliation with the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. All academic appointments for the attending surgeons of the SLRHC Department of Orthopedic Surgery are through Columbia University. However, the orthopedic surgery residency of SLRHC is run as an entirely separate and independent entity from the Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital Orthopedic Surgery program.
The residency program is currently approved for 15 positions, three in each year of a five-year program. The PGY-1 residents (i.e. “interns”) are provided with a schedule of 12 one-month rotations controlled solely by the chairman of orthopedics. These rotations are in compliance with the guidelines of the Residency Review Committee for resident education.