Already staff
This is not a chief-resident gap year. He has run lists, call, and a section. Deputy Chief of Orthopedics and Podiatry at A.T. Augusta. Locums in civilian houses when the Army list is thin. He knows how a room actually moves.
For program directors · Adult reconstruction fellowship
Aaron S. Vaslow, MD. Board-certified. Army staff. USUHS educator. Engineer. Separating in 2028 and looking for a dedicated adult reconstruction year — complex primary and revision — not a tourist rotation through primary THA.
The case for the file
This is not a chief-resident gap year. He has run lists, call, and a section. Deputy Chief of Orthopedics and Podiatry at A.T. Augusta. Locums in civilian houses when the Army list is thin. He knows how a room actually moves.
Associate Professor, USUHS. Precepts Walter Reed ortho residents, family medicine, and PA students. Academic Chief at Tripler when the program sat above the 90th percentile on the OITE. He will carry juniors instead of competing with them.
Mechanical engineer, Rose-Hulman. He writes exposures, fences, and phenotype-to-gap logic before the case. Fellowship should add revision volume and the tools he does not own yet — not teach him how to think in sequence.
What he is asking for
Primary hip and knee, arthroscopy, and trauma are already in the toolkit. The fellowship year is for the cases other orthopaedists hand off: failed reconstruction, infection, the knee whose envelope is not a textbook Type I.
He is not applying to hide from general ortho. He is applying because the job he wants after 2028 is to be the person those cases come to — mixed academic and private, teaching residents, taking the hard list.
Preparation is the operating system. Al-Asad with an FRSD, limited-resource staff year in Korea, then a deliberate move into teaching. The through-line is the same: name the sequence before the incision.
Work product
A public phenotype calculator: CPAK and which bone owns the deformity, target gap family, insert class, fences, and what prior ACL/PCL/collateral work does to trust in that envelope. Written for residents and attendings. Brand- and robot-agnostic on purpose.
Open the calculatorFor the program
Applications and letters go through the usual channels. This page is the short version of the file: staff, teacher, engineer, separating 2028, looking for a reconstruction year that is actually reconstruction.
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The calculator is an educational sketch for surgeons. It is not an implant IFU, not a robot IFU, not a standard of care, and not a substitute for the operating surgeon’s judgment, the implant manufacturer’s labeling, or the institution’s privileges and protocols. Target gaps, fences, and insert classes are heuristics. They can be wrong for a given knee. The user alone is responsible for operative decisions.
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