Temple University Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Temple's Orthopaedic Surgery residency is a five-year academic program built around a broad multi-site rotation structure spanning Temple University Hospital, a Level 1 pediatric trauma center (St. Christopher's), a pediatric specialty hospital (Shriners), an oncology-focused rotation at Fox Chase Cancer Center, and a busy community practice experience at Abington Memorial Hospital, giving residents graded exposure across trauma, pediatric, oncologic, and community orthopaedic settings. Research is a formal graduation requirement, with each resident completing at least one peer-review-suitable project supported by dedicated bioengineering, kinesiology, and biomechanics resources, an institutional patient database, and an annual departmental research journal. The program's structure - progressive subspecialty immersion culminating in a chief year with supervisory teaching responsibility - and its residents' subsequent fellowship placements (sports medicine, hand, spine) indicate a strong subspecialty-fellowship trajectory rather than a general-practice orientation. The department values residents who can function across disparate clinical environments, from quaternary oncologic and pediatric trauma care to high-volume community joint/spine/hand practice.