Fellowships

The field of joint preservation

Joint preservation encompasses a variety of non-surgical treatments and surgical procedures designed to reverse or slow the degenerative disease process and prevent or delay the need for joint replacement. The goal is to alleviate pain and optimize function, allowing people to continue participating in an active lifestyle.

New Joint Preservation Fellowship

Sunnybrook and the University of Toronto are pleased to announce a Joint Preservation Fellowship.

The goal of the fellowship is to provide post-graduate trainees the opportunity to acquire assessment skills and surgical techniques to manage every aspect of care with respect to knee joint injuries and conditions including:

• complex trauma;
• primary and revision total knee replacement;
• partial knee replacement;
• osteotomy;
• cartilage restoration; and
• simple through complex soft-tissue reconstruction.

The fellowship includes:

• diagnosis, evaluation and management of degenerative, inflammatory and post-traumatic arthritis of the hip and knee;
• a high volume of complex primary and revision knee arthroplasty; and
• the treatment of young adult hip and knee disorders resulting in possible resurfacing, osteotomies and arthroscopy.

Sunnybrook is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is the largest trauma centre in Canada. Through the Holland Bone and Joint Program, we have an annual volume of about 5,000 elective orthopaedic surgical cases (including more than 2,200 hip and knee replacement procedures) and more than 30,000 ambulatory care visits.

The fellowship is open to international and Canadian medical graduates and geared towards recent program graduates.

We are currently accepting applications for 2023 (deadline June 30, 2022) and 2024 (deadline September 30, 2022).

We require that all fellows are ACLS certified and will provide training if necessary.

If interested, please send covering letter, CV and 3 reference letters to Carolyn Pezzetti.