Corewell Health William Beaumont University Program Royal Oak-Taylor Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a large academic orthopedic surgery residency anchored at Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital, a 1,100-bed Level I trauma tertiary center and primary teaching site for Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, supplemented by six months at Corewell Health Taylor, a community hospital with a dedicated orthopedic and joint specialty center. The program's identity is built around a substantial dedicated research infrastructure: a multi-lab, 6,000-square-foot orthopedic research institute staffed by graduate-trained biomedical engineers, a dedicated orthopedic clinical trials office, and a structural expectation that each resident complete two lab-based projects and one clinical project across training, culminating in a dedicated PGY-4 research month. Coverage of all eight core orthopedic subspecialties, five affiliated orthopedic fellowship programs on site, and access to additional community sites (Troy Hospital, ambulatory surgical centers) point to a program oriented toward subspecialty fellowship training with a strong academic/publication expectation layered onto broad surgical volume. Resident rosters drawn heavily from strong US MD programs (Case Western, Chicago Pritzker, UCLA, Emory) suggest the program values applicants who can meet a high academic and productivity bar alongside clinical performance.