NYU Grossman School of Medicine-NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

NYU Langone's Orthopedic Surgery residency is a large (80 total residents, 16 per year), tertiary academic program spanning multiple clinical sites—including NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, Tisch/Kimmel, Bellevue, Brooklyn, Jamaica Hospital, the VA, and Hassenfeld Children's Hospital—giving trainees exposure across private, safety-net, and pediatric settings within a single five-year block. Research is structurally embedded: every resident completes a minimum of three scholarly writing projects (one original research effort required), and the program supports a dedicated clinician-scientist pathway in which two residents per year pursue an integrated PhD. Training follows a rigid graduated-responsibility model through all nine subspecialties with a formal AAOS-based basic science curriculum, surgical skills lab with VR simulation, and a chief-resident year with substantial operative and administrative authority. The program's scale, PhD-track option, and multi-site complexity signal a preference for residents oriented toward competitive fellowship subspecialization and, for a subset, formal physician-scientist training.