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OREF Highlights
OREF has offered programs, such as Resident Research Symposia, that encourage orthopaedic residents to engage in research.
The symposia are funded in part by corporations. Past sponsors of OREF Resident Research Symposia have included: Ballert, Biomet, DePuy, DePuy Spine, Genzyme, Hospital For Joint Diseases, Orthopaedics Institute, Lee Perfect Transcription, Medtronic, Oranganon, Pfizer, Sanofi-Synthelabo, Scheck & Siress, Smith, Nephew, Stryker, Synthes, Wyeth, and Zimmer.
The first symposium was held at Loyola University in Chicago in April 1998. Since that first program, OREF, with corporate support, has offered symposia programs at as many as eight host institutions coast to coast in the continental U.S., and through the California Orthopaedic Association and the Mid-Central State Orthopaedic Society.
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"The Resident Research Symposia provide many benefits for residents. They are an opportunity for academically interested residents to complete and present a research project in the non-threatening environment of their peers and to receive critical input, which is always necessary to advance in science. Through these symposia, residents come to appreciate the opportunities that OREF represents, both as a source of future funding and as a national scientific resource, and, from this appreciation, residents understand the importance of supporting OREF economically as residents and after they graduate."