Anthony Ding, MD
Residency Program Director
Associate Professor
Hubert Kim, MD, PhD
Residency Program Director Emeritus
Professor and Vice-Chair for Education
James O. Johnston Endowed Chair for Education
Residency Program Overview
The UCSF Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program is dedicated to training orthopaedic surgeons who will make a difference locally, nationally, and globally. UCSF is a collaborative and inclusive place where excellence is the norm. We strive to create a learning environment that rewards exploration, discovery, and the rigorous pursuit of knowledge. Our graduates have gone on to leadership positions at major hospitals, academic institutions, and organizations throughout our field. We believe that no matter what your interests and ultimate career goals may be, UCSF can help you get there.
Our Department is focused first and foremost on training residents. Compared to many other training programs you may be considering, ours trains relatively few fellows, and some subspecialty groups train no fellows at all. We believe this commitment to resident education allows us to create a learning environment where your educational needs come first.
Our clinical training paradigm is based on a model in which residents complete two rotations in each subspecialty area—once as a junior resident and again as a senior resident. This schedule provides ample exposure to all subspecialty areas before fellowship decisions are made. We also utilize a variety of teaching sites, including international locations, to provide exposure to a wide range of patient populations and health care delivery systems. This structure allows us to provide the breadth and depth of clinical experience our residents have asked for through years of thoughtful refinement.
As accomplished and dedicated as UCSF faculty may be, the real strength of our residency program is the residents themselves. They are a supremely talented and motivated group of individuals who work hard and play hard. We are extremely proud of our graduates, what they have accomplished, and how our program contributed to their development as orthopaedic surgeons. We encourage you to spend a month with us as a sub-intern so that we can learn about, and from, each other. San Francisco is one of the truly great cities in the world — if you have never been here, you owe it to yourself to visit. Perhaps you belong here.