OREF Highlights

A logical corollary to the Resident Journal Club was the creation of the OREF Resident Giving Program. Encouraging residents to become more familiar with research through the Journal Club is consistent with encouraging residents to contribute to OREF to support research . In the years ahead, and throughout their careers, these residents will benefit from the type of research OREF supports, and many will become OREF grant recipients.

To encourage residents to give to orthopaedic research through OREF, some Department Chairs, such as Thomas A. Einhorn, M.D. and John S. Kirkpatrick, M.D., make donations in their residents' names in the hope the residents will learn the importance of funding the research that advances their specialty and therefore, continue to give to OREF in the future.

RETURN TO OREF HIGHLIGHTS

"There are many reasons the Resident Giving Program is valuable. It gives residents an exposure to the foundation in their 'formative years,' while increasing their awareness of how many of the advances in our field have been funded. The program also fosters the habit of giving to the future development of ones' profession, and, for those already inclined to give, it offers an opportunity for recognition commensurate with a resident's income level. Finally, it allows mentors an opportunity to plant seeds as many of us contribute in our residents' names to put them in the habit of giving back to their chosen profession."

John S. Kirkpatrick, M.D.