McLaren Health Care-Greater Lansing-MSU Program

Program Identity & Fit

McLaren Greater Lansing's Orthopaedic Surgery Residency is an osteopathically-rooted, community-based program affiliated with Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, combining core training at McLaren Greater Lansing and Sparrow/UMH Sparrow Eaton Hospital with dedicated subspecialty rotations at Cleveland Clinic (orthopedic oncology) and Cincinnati Children's Hospital (pediatrics). The curriculum emphasizes osteopathic philosophy alongside standard orthopedic training, with a front-loaded first-year structure (six months general orthopedics) and heavy conference-based didactics (fracture, adult reconstruction, foot/ankle, hand, spine conferences) reflecting a broad generalist-to-subspecialist exposure model. The program builds in four weeks of PGY-4 time explicitly for fellowship interviewing, signaling an expectation that most graduates pursue subspecialty fellowship training after residency. Research exists at the institutional level (McLaren Center for Research and Innovation) and via a bi-monthly Research Conference, but the program's structure and rotations prioritize clinical/surgical breadth and osteopathic identity over investigative output.