Curriculum

The spine surgery team includes a fellow, resident, advanced practice providers, and the spine faculty.

Curriculum consists of:

• Faculty interaction
• Didactic lectures
• Conferences
• Outpatient clinics

Each section of the curriculum emphasizes basic science, diagnosis, pathogenesis, operative, and non-operative decision making, along with results and complications of all treatments. The outpatient component of the program is held at the Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital Orthopedic Institute, where the fellows see new patients, determine surgical plans, and manage their own postoperative patients.

The department of orthopedic surgery fully supports the attendance of the fellow at one national meeting during the fellowship.

Annual meetings to choose from are:

• American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons
• Cervical Spine Research Society
• North American Spine Society
• Scoliosis Research Society
• International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (if held within the United States)