UPMC Medical Education-Hamot Program

Program Identity & Fit

UPMC Hamot's Orthopaedic Surgery Residency is a community-based, university-affiliated program in Erie, PA that trains three residents per year across the full breadth of orthopaedic subspecialties, with explicit emphasis on general orthopaedics as a program strength. The clinical environment blends trauma-heavy inpatient care (a new Patient Care Tower housing TNICU/CVICU/MICU beds) with continuity outpatient clinics and dedicated pediatric orthopaedic exposure at Shriners Hospital for Children-Erie and rotations at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Scholarly activity is structured but not the program's central identity: each resident completes a mentored basic science/QI project during a dedicated research rotation, encouraged toward presentation or publication rather than driving fellowship placement. The program explicitly frames itself as small enough for close faculty-resident relationships yet busy enough for broad surgical exposure, and states its mission is training clinicians for practice in Erie and surrounding underserved communities.