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Early Impressions: The ASSH Resident Education Curriculum Task Force

The task force seeks to develop a knowledge based curriculum for trainees at the junior and senior levels of orthopaedic and plastic surgical training.  The group will also assemble a catalogue of core cases for trainees at the entry and more senior levels with the goal of providing a foundation of hand surgery knowledge for future ASSH members.  A standardized anatomical program of dissection will be prepared and disseminated, based on successful programs already in use by member institutions.  The ASSH may also sponsor an educational session entitled What Every Resident Needs to Know About Hand Surgery at the AAOS and ASPS annual meetings in order to improve our interaction with young trainees at these major meetings.

By these combined efforts, the task force seeks to both broaden the exposure among residents at the time they are choosing their careers, ensuring that the best and brightest candidates consider hand surgery.     A further objective is to have those orthopaedic and plastic surgeons who enter general practice have a sound basic fund of knowledge that leads to greater levels of confidence in the care of their patients.

Resident Education Curriculum Task Force Members
Dr. Scott Steinmann
Dr. Paul Binhammer
Dr. Kimberly Mezera
Dr. David Bozentka
Dr. Terry Myckatyn

Martin I. Boyer, MD, Chair

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