The Orthopaedic Surgery Residency accepts five residents per year.
Application and Interview Process
- The application deadline is October 13, 2022
- All applications must be submitted through ERAS.
- Applicants must complete our program-specific supplemental application by 10/13/22 for their application to be considered as complete. Please note that this supplemental application is separate from the ERAS Supplemental Application. The Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Health program WILL NOT participate in the ERAS Supplemental Application.
- Be sure to register with the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP) so that we may rank you.
- As part of the ERAS process, prospective resident will need to submit the following documents:
- ERAS application
- USMLE Step I & II (Required for both MD and DO medical students)
- MSPE uploaded by your school's Deans Office
- Medical School Transcript
- ECFMG Certification (Foreign Medical School graduates only)
- Personal statement
- Three letters of recommendation to be addressed to the program director. (A fourth letter of recommendation may be uploaded but is not required)
- Current photograph (Preferred but not required)
- All interviews will be conducted virtually on December 6, 2022; December 15, 2022; and January 6, 2023.
Interview Selection Committee
- Jason J. Halvorson, MD, Residency Program Director, Orthopaedic Trauma
- John Birkedal, MD, Professor, Spine Orthopaedics
- Kerry Danelson, MD, Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery Research Lab
- Artina Dawkins, PhD, MPA, C-TAGME, Program Manager and Co-Director, Diversity and Inclusion, Orthopaedic Surgery
- Benjamin Graves, MD, Assistant Program Director, Assistant Professor, Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery
- Michael Hughes, MD, Assistant Professor, Pediatric Orthopaedics
- Holly Pilson, MD, Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Trauma
- Aaron Scott, MD,Assistant Program Director Associate Professor, Foot and Ankle Surgery
- F. Keith Stirewalt IV, PA-C – Program Director, FaithHealth Clinical Medicine
- Chris Tuohy, MD, Associate Professor, Hand, Shoulder, and Elbow Orthopaedics
- Resident representatives