Speakers: Anna Cohen-Rosenblum, MD, Associate Professor, NYU Langone Health Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Anna Cohen-Rosenblum, MD: This course is about understanding the fundamentals of hip and knee arthroplasty, from implant identification to surgical techniques from primary to revision, and also building a career in arthroplasty, if that's what you want to do, which we hope at the end of this course, you're going to want to be a total joint surgeon. So it's really just a catch all,
Anna Cohen-Rosenblum, MD: For me, the best thing about this course is the faculty, getting to work with them, learn from them, craft a course that we think highlights all of their strengths, so that you as course attendees can learn the most from them. And that's really what inspires me to work with my co-director, Ry Kagan at OHSU. I think we've done, if I don't say so myself, a really good job getting an amazing group of people together who have a lot to give and are really excited to teach you.
Anna Cohen-Rosenblum, MD: We have faculty from all over the United States and international as well. We have different practice types, private practice, mixed private academic models, pure academic, hospital employed, and they have different skill sets and different specialties within arthroplasty. So it's really an opportunity for residents to hear from all aspects of hip and knee replacement and what that career can look like and really gain the most from our faculty with their different perspectives. We also have people from different stages of their career. We have surgeons who are maybe a few years out, 4 to 5 years out, and surgeons who are well established in their careers and, you know, division chiefs, department leaders, fellowship directors, so really a wide range of people for you to learn from and meet.
Anna Cohen-Rosenblum, MD: Obviously the focus is on lab, and we have a lot of time devoted to working in the lab very closely with faculty, and we do mix up the faculty too. So you're going to work with a bunch of different faculty over your time during the course. So there's a lab format, there is traditional didactics format, which we do have some of that, but we also have more of a debate format, and small group as well as case presentations. So just a lot of variety of learning styles. So that way you'll be able to, I think, regardless of how you learn, you're going to be able to learn effectively by coming to this course because there's a mix of hands-on lab, traditional didactics, and interactive small group sessions, as well as a panel session where you can really pick the brains of all the faculty about different career aspects of transitioning from residency to fellowship and beyond.
