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Christopher Reilly

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

I have enjoyed learning and teaching throughout my medical career. My role as an educator has slowly evolved through my medical career. I joined the Orthopaedic Department in 1996 and have thrived on my teaching interactions with medical students and residents. My resident teaching involves formal lectures, informal case based rounds, clinical teaching with patients and teaching psychomotor skills in the operating room suite. I have actively sought out teaching within the residency and undergraduate medical program. My role in teaching undergraduate students has included being a group leader in the medical school clinical skills courses and supervising a large number of elective students. I have found small group problem based resident teaching sessions to be most rewarding and a style of teaching for which I have a natural skill. For the past seven years I have led weekly teaching sessions for residents at Children's Hospital that are very highly rated by the residents.

I have greatly enjoyed my teaching experiences. Teaching within surgical residency training continues to be largely what I would describe as "seat of the pants type teaching". Residents get a great deal of their education in through working alongside staff surgeons. Prior to the last decade very little attention was paid to resident education. I very quickly develop a reflective clinical practice when I started working at Children's Hospital in 1996. I am constantly evaluating my surgical results, either informally or formally within a research project. I then try to improve my surgical techniques and improve on those results. I have tried to equip myself with an education in the field of teaching. I initially completed the TIPS course at St Paul's hospital. I have joined the Association for Surgical Educators and attended the annual meeting in 2002. I was fortunate to be able to participate in the University of British Columbia Teaching Certificate program in 2003 - 2004. These experiences and others have allowed me to develop a reflective practice towards teaching and learning within the Orthopaedic Residency Program and within the Medical School. My success as a resident educator led to my appointment as Director of Postgraduate Education in the Department of Orthopaedics. I continue to apply my knowledge of teaching and learning to improve the education of surgical residents at the University of British Columbia. In addition, I am creating a formal educational curriculum for resident's half day that develops rotation specific objectives directly linked to assessment tools and content. I am in the process of submitting an educational grant to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

As Director of Postgraduate Education in the Department of Orthopaedics I have created a number of goals for my own teaching and learning and for the development of the educational program within the department. In the long term I would like to continue to refine and develop my own teaching skills through a reflective teaching practice. I would also like to continue to develop a scholarly approach to teaching and learning through the completion of a number of educational research projects with submission and presentation in peer reviewed forums. One of my long term goals is to act as an educational resource person within the Department.

Selected Conference Participation

  1. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Annual Meeting 2005
  2. 6th Annual Canadian Spine Society Meeting 2006
  3. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2006
  4. Paediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America Annual Meeting 2007
  5. 42nd Annual Scoliosis Research Society Meeting 2007

Selected Presentations

  1. Invited Speaker: Canadian Spine Society, 5th Annual Meeting, Mont Sainte Anne, Quebec, March 17 - 19, 2005: Surgical Management of Pediatric Spondylothesis.
  2. Reilly CW, Mulpuri K, Choit RL. Trans-Physeal Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction in Skeletally Immature Patients (Presenter). Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Ontario May 12-15, 2005.
  3. Reilly CW. Trauma in the Immature Spine. (Invited Lecturer). Scoliosis Research Society, Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida, October 27-30, 2005.
  4. Reilly CW, Perdios A, Choit RL, Douglas J. Resident Case Participation: Resident and Surgeon Perspectives. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, September 22-24, 2005
  5. Davidson D, Davidson S, Perdios A, Reilly CW. Psychiatric Disorders Associated with Scoliosis: A Pilot Study of a Validated Screening Tool. Canadian Spine Society, Lake Louise, Alberta, March 23-25, 2006.

Selected Publications

  1. Labrom RD, Hoskins M, Reilly CW, Tredwell SJ, Wong PKH. Clinical usefulness of somatosensory evoked potentials in detection of brachial plexopathy secondary to malpositioning in scoliosis surgery. Spine 30(18):2089-93, September 2005.
  2. Labrom RD, Tan JS, Reilly CR, Tredwell SJ, Fisher CG, Oxland TR. The Effect of Interbody Cage Positioning on Lumbrosacral Vertebral Endplate Failure in Compression. Spine 1;30(19):E556-61, October 2005
  3. Choit RL, Mulpuri K, Leblanc JG, Reilly CW, Tredwell SJ. Abdominal Aortic Injuries Associated with Chance Fractures in Paediatric Patients. J of Pediatric Surg 41(6): 1184-1190, June 2006.
  4. Reilly CW, Slobogean GP, Choit RL. The Efficacy of Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery for Anterior Release and Fusion in the Management of Paediatric Spinal Deformities. Can J Surgery 49(5):341-6, October 2006
  5. Davidson D, Rowan R, Reilly CW. Lumbrosacral Nerve Root Anomaly Associated with Spondylolisthesis in an Adolescent: a Case Report and Review of the Literature. Spine 2006 Sep 1;31(19):E718-21. Review.Reilly CW, Choit RL. The Role of Transarticular Screws in the Management of C1-C2 Instability in Children. Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics (26)5: 582-88, September/October 2006.
  6. Slobogean GP, Mulpuri K, Alvarez CM, Reilly CW. Comminuted intra-articular tibial tubercle avulsion fracture: a new variant, Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery 2006;14(3):319-21
  7. Reilly CW, Choit RL. Proximal Migration of Femoral Staples after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction in a Skeletally Immature Patient. Orthopedics. 2007 Jul;30(7):575-6.
  8. Blair J, Perdios A, Reilly CW. Peroneal Spastic Flat Foot Induced by a Talar Osteochondral Lesion: a Case Report. Foot and Ankle International 2007 Jun;28(6):724-6.
  9. Reilly CW, Stothers KA, Broudo M, Perdios A, Tredwell SJ. An orthopedic career fair: a novel recruitment event. Can J Surgery 2007 Jun;50(3):168-70.
  10. Reilly CW. Pediatric Spine Trauma. JBJS (Am) 89 Suppl 1:98-107, February 2007
  11. Mulpuri K, Perdios A, Reilly CW. Evidence Based Medicine Analysis of All Pedicle Screw Constructs in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Spine 2007 Sept 1; 32(19 Suppl): S109-14
  12. Slobogean GP, Reilly CW. The International Knee Documentation Committee Subjective Evaluation Form in a pediatric population: pilot normative data. Am J Sports Med 2007 Sept 14

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