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Training: The majority of our
doctors at GIKK have completed fellowship
training in their chosen area of expertise. After college and medical
school, orthopaedic surgeons complete five years of residency training
prior to beginning practice. A fellowship is an additional, elective
year of subspecialty training in a focused area of orthopaedics.
Subspecialists at GIKK include:
hand & microvascular surgery, adult reconstruction (total joint
replacements), sports medicine, foot & ankle surgery, shoulder &
elbow surgery, and orthopaedic trauma.
Ongoing
education:
All of our surgeons are members of their national subspecialty
organizations. Participation in these organizations allows for
continuing education and contact with other subspecialists at the forefront
of advances in orthopaedics. In addition to membership, many of our
surgeons actively participate in basic science and clinical research –
actively contributing to the advances in their area of practice.
Finally, many of our surgeons participate as faculty in educational
programs for other orthopaedic surgeons across the country.
Practice: While there are a number
of fellowship-trained orthopaedic surgeons in our community, what sets GIKK apart is our ability to focus our
individual practices on our subspecialty. Because of the large number
of surgeons, large volume of patients, an excellent working relationship
among our doctors, and our unique practice philosophy – we are able to
refer patients within our group to get them to the surgeons best able to
deal with their particular problem. Because of this, about 75-95% of
our surgeons’ cases are within their focused area of expertise. This
ensures that your surgeon “does a lot of these” when the time comes.
For example, if a
group of ten surgeons does 400 total joint replacements each year – that
would be 40 per doctor. At GIKK,
those 400 procedures would be done by two surgeons who subspecialize in
that area. The result – your doctor does 200 of these cases per year
instead of 40.
That level of
experience makes a difference.
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