VITO

CURRICULUM

• VITO serves as a regional referral area for complex cases, which will broaden the fellow’s experience. In addition to traditional hip and knee replacement surgery, the arthroplasty surgeons perform Osteotomies of the knee, and surface-replacement arthroplasty of the hip. The fellow will participate in a large revision surgery practice and will assist in the operative treatment of patients with infected joint replacement and concomitant severe bone loss. Both modular and non-modular prostheses are used for revision hip surgery.

  Fellows will develop an understanding of ethical, socioeconomic and medical/legal issues that affect patient care. They will also learn how to apply appropriate utilization management and cost containment measures, while providing quality patient care.

  The fellows will participate in various educational activities at VITO. Participation in institutional orientation, education programs and other activities involving medical center faculty is required.

• Didactic activities of the fellowship will include a weekly Spine surgery teaching conference with a defined syllabus designed to cover the field of Spine surgery.

  Approximately 300+ cases were done in VITO,

  Vast surgical exposure to open and minimally invasive techniques

  Occiput to Sacrum – Microscopic discectomy – ACDF – TLIF – XLIF/DLIF – Transthoracic and retroperitoneal corpectomy and reconstruction – Occiput to pelvis spinal instrumentation – Image guided surgery – Minimally invasive spine surgery – Kyphoplasty – En bloc spondylectomy – Transpedicular osteotomy – Both hook and pedicle screw posterior spinal instrumentation for spinal deformity correction

  Ergonomic, efficient and safe spine surgery