VA Hospital Rotation

During each year of your orthopaedic surgery residency, you will spend two months at Audie L. Murphy Veteran’s Administration Hospital on the VA Orthopaedics Rotation. This rotation is designed to provide exposure to adult reconstructive procedures, shoulder, hand, and an extensive experience in general orthopaedics. Clinics and surgery take place each day. Along with the general orthopaedic clinics, each of the surgical subspecialists within the department has one half day of clinic at the VA to provide subspecialty coverage. While on the VA service, residents are responsible for night call once every fourth night.