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Goals

Goals of the Orthopaedic Spine Fellowship

  • Develop a broad knowledge base and gain extensive clinical experience in pediatric and adult spine surgery.
  • Participate in teaching the principles of spinal disorders and their management to orthopaedic residents and medical students.
  • Participate in research on the spine while improving research skills and furthering the development of the current body of knowledge concerning spinal disorders.

Educational Goals for Fellowship Rotations

The NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases (NYUHJD) Spine Fellowship seeks to provide all fellows with wide-ranging experience and thorough training in the diagnosis and treatment of the full spectrum of spine-related problems and disorders. Toward that end, academic, clinical, and operative goals of the fellowship will include:

  • Emphasis on proper patient evaluation, to include physical examination, diagnostic work-up, image application, and treatment alternatives, both operative and non-operative.
  • Regular and broad outpatient experience in the various spine clinics at the Hospital for Joint Diseases and NYU Hospitals Center-Tisch Hospital.
  • Outpatient fellow experience includes pre-op and post-op evaluations by attendance in private office settings.
  • An ongoing series of didactic lectures and case presentations delivered by both Attendings and fellows (individually or together) for weekly and monthly Service and Department conferences.
  • Six months of focused training on the basics of spine surgery (1st half of fellowship). As their knowledge and experience grows, fellows perform increasingly more complex aspects of spinal surgery, including but not limited to lumbar discectomy, lumbar transpedicle screw insertion, and anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (including plating procedures).
  • Six months of training achieving a more advanced understanding of the indications and outcomes of all spinal procedures (2nd half of fellowship). Fellows' surgical experience will continually enlarge to encompass more complex spine procedures for the treatment of Degenerative Disc Disease, Deformity/Scoliosis, and Infection. Procedures include but are not limited to revision spine surgery, anterior and posterior spine surgery, minimally invasive techniques and more complex spinal deformity surgery.