THE CAMPBELL WAY
Resident Training Today and Tomorrow For nearly 100 years, the Campbell Clinic has trained orthopaedic surgeons who practice throughout the United States and around the world. The University of Tennessee–Campbell Clinic Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering residency works with the Campbell Foundation to run this top-tier accredited fiveyear program for 40 residents. This program sets residents up for success as surgeons, researchers, educators and leaders. Derek M. Kelly, MD
Clayton C. Bettin, MD
Alumni include presidents of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), directors of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS), presidents of the American Orthopaedic Association (AOA), and numerous presidents of subspecialty societies, making Campbell one of the best represented private practices in the country. We reached out to Derek M. Kelly, MD, Pediatric Orthopaedics Specialist and Residency Program Director, and Clayton C. Bettin, MD, FAAOS and Assistant Program Director, to discuss the state of the residency. With support from Renee Poe, MS, Program Coordinator, this powerhouse team led the program through COVID-19 and upholds the gold standard first set by Dr. Campbell. How has the COVID-19 pandemic challenged the residency program? Dr. Kelly: Like so many other industries, we had to move much of our formal teaching and research online. We facilitated an entirely virtual resident recruitment and selection process, going from 800 applicants to 90 interviews to 8 future orthopaedic surgeons and giving applicants a virtual experience with our program and community. We launched CampbellResidency.org. Thanks to Zoom and Microsoft Teams (and great staff ), we’ve sustained teaching and research schedules.
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Dr. Bettin: COVID has presented unique challenges, but it has made us an even stronger organization. We have developed hybrid online learning environments for our resident educational sessions, as well as for all of our subspecialty meetings. Our residents have been exposed to telemedicine and have learned valuable lessons in how to apply this to their own practices in the future.
CAMPBELL ORTHOPAEDIC JOURNAL • VOLUME 7, 2021
