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University of Hawai'i |
(808) 956-8856 Telephone |
For Immediate Release: |
November 6, 1998 |
Contact: Dr. Allen B. Richardson, 808 586-8234 Cheryl Ernst, 808 956-8856 |
UH Orthopaedic Residents Outscore Most of the Country Residents in the University of Hawai'i Integrated Orthopaedic Residency Training Program have again outscored their counterparts in 95 out of 100 orthopaedic residency programs across the country. The orthopaedic resident physicians of UH Manoa's John A. Burns School of Medicine scored in the 95th percentile on the Orthopaedic In-Training Examination taken last November. The 275-question annual exam is given to all orthopaedic residents across the country to promote study and discussion and help them prepare for their board exam. It also provides a measure for both individual residents and for residency programs to use in gauging their performance against peer physicians and programs. "A 90th percentile ranking is considered excellent. It affirms the quality of our post-graduate physician training," says Dr. Allen B. Richardson, program director for the UH Integrated Orthopaedic Residency Training Program. UH scored 98 in 1996 and 93 the previous year. "Quite simply, our residents are among the best in the nation," he said. The UH program, which trains eight orthopedic residents per year, is one of 158 orthopaedic training programs supervising 2,872 resident positions in the United States. It and eleven other UH residency programs-family practice, internal medicine, transitional, geriatric, obstetrics and gynecology, pathology, pediatrics, adult psychiatry, child/adolescent psychiatry, surgery and surgical intensive care-place about 240 physicians per year in area hospitals for postgraduate medial education that lasts one to seven years. |
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