Peninsula Hospital Center

Medical Education - ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY

The orthopaedic residency, begun in 1991, focuses on producing the most qualified, most well rounded and best educated orthopedic surgeons.

Didactics: besides a weekly fracture conference, residents receive pure academics every Wednesday and cadaver dissection weekly to bi-weekly all year long. Additional teaching affiliations enhance the volume of hands-on training available, especially in reconstructive orthopedics in over forty subspecialties. Under the supervision of attendings, increased responsibility is granted to the resident as ability permits. Each resident participates in the care of patients in large volume, high pathology, orthopedic clinics. The Trauma 1 rotations are through major tertiary care hospitals. As part of the consortium, residents receive training at Peninsula Hospital Center, North Shore/LIJ Health System, Manhasset Hospital and Franklin Hospital. Pediatric orthopaedic training is received at Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center, rated 6th in the country for pediatrics.

Graduates from Peninsula Hospital Center’s Orthopaedic Surgery Program have done fellowships and advanced subspecialty training in such institutions as Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Hospital for Special Surgery, Woman’s Brigham, Hospital for Join Disease – NYU, Texas Back Institute, University of Colorado and the Florida Orthopaedic Institute.

Program Length: Four Years

Norman Sveilich, D.O.;FAOAOS

Director, Orthopaedic Surgery Program

Training Programs

Rotations in Geriatrics, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Internal Medicine and many medical subspecialties are offered to residents during training.