MedStar Health Georgetown University D.C. Program

Program Identity & Fit

MedStar Georgetown University Hospital's Orthopaedic Surgery Residency is a five-year, academically affiliated program built around a highly structured, subspecialty-rotation model spanning multiple named institutions - MedStar Georgetown (ranked #1 in the D.C. metro region), MedStar Washington Hospital Center (the region's largest private hospital), Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Children's National Medical Center, Inova Fairfax, and community sites like MedStar Montgomery and Inova Mount Vernon. The curriculum is explicitly graded and subspecialty-siloed (each three-month block under fellowship-trained faculty in foot/ankle, hand, spine, joint reconstruction, sports, pediatrics, trauma), with a deliberate PGY-5 "community orthopedics" rotation designed to prepare residents for post-residency practice rather than solely fellowship or academic careers. A dedicated PGY-4 Adult Reconstruction/Research block and affiliation with the MedStar Health Research Institute indicate research is integrated but not the program's defining feature; the emphasis instead is on breadth of clinical/procedural exposure across trauma, pediatrics, and community settings with strong continuity-of-care outpatient structuring. The program appears to value residents who can thrive within a rigidly rotation-based, multi-institutional system and who show genuine interest in serving medically underserved populations, as reflected in its URM diversity scholarship criteria.