This year, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston reportedly accepted a DO medical school graduate into its orthopedic trauma fellowship program for the first time.
Jacob Duncan, DO, is a fourth-year orthopedic surgery resident at Doctors Medical Center Modesto (Calif.). After completing his residency at the 461-bed acute care hospital in the summer of 2019, Dr. Duncan will head to UT Health, where he was matched into the orthopedic trauma fellowship program earlier this year.
Dr. Duncan was the only DO interviewed this year for the fellowship and the first DO graduate the program has ever accepted, Doctors Medical Center Modesto announced this month.
"Dr. Duncan worked hard to get that spot and deserved it," said Marc Trzeciak, DO, founding director of the orthopedic surgery residency at Doctors Medical Center Modesto. "Our residents are given the framework of knowledge to compete with anyone in the country. The training they receive is top notch."
Along with Dr. Duncan, several other residents from Doctors Medical Center Modesto will be entering fellowship programs following their residencies. Eric Huish, DO, will complete a shoulder and elbow fellowship in France and head to Baltimore in the fall to continue his fellowship training at Johns Hopkins Medicine, while Joseph Humphreys, DO, will begin a sports medicine fellowship program at Columbia-based University of Missouri this fall.