UCI Resident Position, Locations, and Educational Goals

Rotations in Orthopaedic Surgery

Educational Goals

Rotation in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California Irvine is designed to provide the orthopaedic resident an in-depth experience in operative and non-operative management of common as well as sophisticated and tertiary orthopaedic problems. Emphasis is placed on spinal deformity, trauma, and degenerative diseases along with an in-depth experience in sports and athletic medicine, arthroscopic procedures, sophisticated ligamentous reconstructions, shoulder and hand re-constructive surgery, and joint replacement arthroplasty of the hip, knee, and shoulder. Thorough participation in ongoing clinics, programs, lectures, conferences, supervised patient care, and in-depth surgical experience should provide interested and attentive orthopaedic residents with sufficient experience to manage a wide range of diseases and afflictions of the musculoskeletal system.

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Please visit our new Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Center in Costa Mesa at:

1640 Newport Blvd., Suite 230
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
949-515-5210

www.sportsmedicine.uci.edu

Dr. Nitin Bhatia and Dr. Thay Lee were presented with the prestigious "Harold and Nancy Willingham Award for Outstanding Research Paper" at the meeting of the Western Orthopaedic Association this year. Drs. Bhatia and Lee presented their paper, entitled "Biomechanical Evaluation of Short-Segment Posterior Instrumentation with Crosslinks In An Unstable Human Burst Fracture Model".

The WOA, with more than 1,700 members, held it's 73rd annual meeting in Seattle, Washington.

Dr. Bhatia, an orthopaedic surgeon and Dr. Lee, a Ph.D Research Career Scientist/Biomedical Engineer, are on staff at University of California at Irvine.