Hi everyone-

Please see below an email that I received from Mike Gagnon at AOC, asking me to share it with the ARCOS membership.

Good morning and happy Monday! There’s no doubt that one of the most important member types we have in the Academic Orthopaedic Consortium are the Orthopaedic Resident and Fellowship Coordinators. Your position has tremendous impact on the trainees, the Department, the educational mission, your institutional ranking, and more. As a former Chief Administrative Officer of the Orthopaedic Department at Duke University, I saw up close how critical this role was to the lifeblood of our Department and I was honored to work with people like Betty Blalock and Wendy Thompson-TAGME.

The AOC has great respect for ARCOS and its leadership and we greatly the partnership that we have had over the last two years in particular. Because of you we have been able to bring our programs to over 3,000 residents and fellows over the past 18 months, truly incredible! THANK YOU.

Because we recognize how critical the Orthopaedic Resident and Fellowship Coordinators are to the national academic orthopaedic landscape, we recently appointed an Associate Chief Medical Officer whose primary responsibilities include understanding how we can better serve you and your residents and fellows and your Department. I am proud to introduce you to Dr. Grant Garrigues. He is going to be in touch with you each month to get direct feedback about what you need and how we can serve you better. You are invited to contact him directly if there are things that you wish to discuss with him or to suggest. We want to make sure that all of you have exactly what you need, when you need it, and delivered in the manner that you feel is best.

Grant is going to send an email to you all soon. In prior years we have asked departments to send us their roster of residents and fellows and we are so grateful to the almost 90 departments that did that. To make this effort easier for you this year, we are going to do this a different way and he will send you an email that we request you to forward directly to your residents and fellows who can then sign up in the AOC to access this content. This will save you all the work from sending those rosters and it will also let residents and fellows do this directly.

Thank you again for everything you do to make the academic orthopaedic landscape great!

We received some great feedback from a good number of you and your Chairs this year and we used that to help construct this page – to centralize all resources into one location for you- what do you think? https://myaocconnect.com/residents-fellows-new-faculty/

Mike Gagnon – Founder & CEO, Academic Orthopaedic Consortium