Fellowship

Trauma and Fracture Fellowships provide an additional year of training following residency to further your education, hone your surgical skills, and develop relationships with mentors that will follow you through your career. 

The Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA) accredits Trauma and Fracture Fellowships with the goal of promoting a high-quality post residency training experience in orthopaedic trauma. This process is intended to ensure that all programs are structured with solid educational platforms and have the depth and breadth of clinical exposure to support fellow education. Routine program reviews should encourage all programs to regularly evaluate and improve the educational experience offered for fellow training. The ultimate purpose is to support quality educational programs for training the next generation of orthopaedic traumatologists who will continue to advance care for all trauma patients.

The OTA accreditation process includes two fellowship types:  Trauma Fellowships and Fracture Fellowships.

OTA Trauma Fellowships are designed to train surgeons capable of working independently at a level 1 or 2 trauma center and/or serving as the American College of Surgeons (ACS) orthopaedic trauma liaison.  Only fellows who complete their training at an OTA Trauma Fellowship will be recognized by the ACS to serve in this role.  Fellows are expected to receive high quality surgical training in a wide range of upper and lower extremity fractures and should be exposed to a reasonable number of pelvic and acetabular fractures.

OTA Fracture Fellowships are designed to train capable and competent fracture surgeons.  We expect that they are capable of taking trauma call at a level 1 or 2 trauma center but may not have the experience to manage all high energy pelvic and acetabular fractures.  Fellows are expected to receive high quality surgical training in a wide range of upper and lower extremity trauma but may not have extensive exposure to pelvic and acetabular fractures.  These fellowships may also have additional areas of focus areas, such as arthroplasty, geriatric fracture management, upper extremity fractures, etc.

Please see the links below for addition information.  Questions regarding OTA Fellowships can be directed to Rachel O'Connell at oconnell@ota.org.