Educational and Clinical Outcome Measures in an Integrated Hand Service.

Background: We recently sought to integrate our orthopaedic and plastic hand surgeons with the goal of improving education, patient care, and providing seamless, continuous coverage for our trauma center. Our hypothesis was that integration could serve both the orthopaedic and plastic surgery training programs well and provide more consistent care for the trauma patients.

Materials And Methods: Program director approval was granted for blinded analysis of case logs from plastic and orthopaedic surgery programs from 2012 through 2019.