Department of Orthopaedic Surgery | Conference Schedules

Conference Schedules

All residents (no matter where they are rotating) are required to attend Saturday conferences at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Chairman's Conference Alternating Saturdays 7:30-10:00am
This conference is held from July to May. It meets weekly from July into October to accommodate the comprehensive Anatomy curriculum, Prosthetics and Orthotics, Pathology, Radiology and Statistics. The conference then shifts to an every other week format in which the topic rotates between all of the various orthopaedic specialties. Ethics is also incorporated into multiple sessions. Faculty from each of the hospitals are involved in these lectures.

Core Curriculum (weekly)*
Fracture conference (weekly)*
Grand Rounds (weekly)*
Journal club (monthly)*
Specialty conferences (weekly)*

*See the Monthly Calendar for dates, topics, and times

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Children's Memorial Hospital

Monday

Department of Surgery Grand Rounds (three times per month)
Combined Orthopaedic/Radiology Conference
Trauma Rounds (once a month)

Wednesday

Basic Science

Thursday

Ortho/Neurospine conference (once a month)
Fracture conference

Friday

Core Curriculum
Journal Club (once a month)

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Evanston Hospital

Monday

Hand & Upper Limb conference

Tuesday

Core Curriculum

Wednesday

Literature Review

Thursday

Fracture Conference
Events Conference (M&M once a month)
Arthroscopy Conference

Friday

Anatomy and Surgical Approaches

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John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County

• weekly Hand conference
• daily X-ray conference

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