Assessing the academic achievement of United States orthopaedic departments

Table 4 Eleven United States orthopaedic surgery residency programs with the highest amount of full-time faculty holding leadership positions in the two largest general orthopaedic surgery societies in the United States and a subspecialty society for each of the nine orthopaedic subspecialties, 2018

Institution	Leadership positions	Points (weighted)
MGH/Brigham and Women's/Harvard	7	0.500
Duke University	6	0.429
Hospital for Special Surgery (Cornell)	4	0.286
Johns Hopkins University	4	0.286
Mayo Clinic (Rochester)	4	0.286
Rush University	4	0.286
SKMC at Thomas Jefferson University	4	0.286
University of North Carolina	3	0.214
Cleveland Clinic	3	0.214
Washington University in St. Louis	3	0.214
Yale University	3	0.214

Two largest general orthopaedic surgery societies in the United States: AAOS and ORS; Nine orthopaedic subspecialties: ASES, AOSSM, MSTS, AAHS, AAHKS, OTA, NASS, POSNA, and AOFAS. AAOS: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons; ORS: Orthopaedic Research Society; AAAHKS: American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons; AAHS: American Association for Hand Surgery; AOFAS: American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society; ASES: American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons; AOSSM: American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine; MSTS: Musculoskeletal Tumor Society; NASS: North American Spine Society; OTA: Orthopaedic Trauma Association; POSNA: Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America; MGH: Massachusetts General Hospital; SKMC: Sidney Kimmel Medical College.