We'll save it in our wiki for future reference!Back when i used to be a mp3 bot for AOL giving away music. I was a 4th year AOA. Because of that, we've created our own shortage. But in smaller towns, this will become an issue. Nerves/CNS? The good ol' days.How do most orthopods feel about PMR docs?

Thus the fellowship heavy training, which leads to even less that residents do (as fellows do all the surgeries).

Since MSK makes up the majority of the body, and we're responsible for that, in turn there's a shit ton of surgeries to play with. Brain/cancer mostly, and they get a CUT in pay. There's a raging debate as to how much the OITE actually correlates with board pass rates. This is also a time when you reflect on how poor you are. The short answer is, the best correlation is still STEP 1 scores and SAT/MCAT scores.

But then i work my extra jobs because i'm bored, but that's a personal decision. The exception is if your "top 35 school" has a well known ortho program. Also as a neurosurg your options of living are limited. Because that's going to be the majority of your life during residency. That could be ortho. Definitely reduces some of the hesitancy I have to dive into a surgical specialty.

Orthobullets for common ortho mgmt. So this is your chance to do everything NOT in your fellowship so that when you're an attending, you don't forget the other stuff.Misc: Board exams are 90% pass rate. This is also when you learn the most of ortho knowledge base and the curve is steep because med school does not prepare you for ortho. This was at the tail end of the toxicity, so the groups ahead of us were sometimes bitter while we were right as rain. we do that too. Have been out in practice for 4 years. Some residents handed it down to me and I've added my 2 cents.Thanks for this! Learn how to splint well. Know where the reds, blues and yellows are. The good side is once people figured you were ortho, you got more respect and residents tended to trust you more. I'm wondering how much research experience your residents have?Depends on the program. Did some research and published towards 4th year, but almost after the fact in terms of applications. yep. The minute i saw that shiny mallet, it was love at first sight. If I am at a huge debate between ortho/neurosurg (both share spine, both use cool toys).

Ortho is not exempt from this lolOkay, but how much do I need to be able to bench to be considered competitive?There's a formula somewhere.

Over 72,500 U.S. physicians have contributed nominations, ratings, and hand-written reviews to help medical students find the right training program.. If you're taking care of lacs in the ED, be willing/able to sew it up.Not OP but Handbook of fractures, Netter's orthopedic anatomy are good places to startNew comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be castPress J to jump to the feed. And the most intelligent questions are when you’ve already read up on it beforehand.Depending on the rotation you need to know/quickly learn anatomy. So it's not impossible. Advice Make sure you improve on step 2.

Thus another reason why everyone does a fellowship, not out of interest but pure necessity.Reasons to do Ortho: Lifestyle: People really misunderstand an ortho surgeon's lifestyle. As a surgicalist, i work seven 24 hour shifts a month and get 23 days off, so my lifestyle i would argue is better than most.

I think this trend initially started to persuade people / fill people in on a field that was relatively unknown (PM&R). Personality of Ortho is diff than neurosurg. 5 year vs 7 year residency.

Maybe a couple of hours of work a month. This is where reputations are made so first impressions were important. get the supplies ready).

Some are easier, some suck...2nd/3rd year: Everyone's experiences will be different. But i think unlike the other subspecialty surgical fields, the volume of ortho is IMMENSE.

We (at least at my program) will teach you. Sure some will argue that that work get better results and what not, but like everything there's a limit.

Things have changed where no longer do you HAVE to work 60+ hours a week. Used to be one general ortho surgeon could do surgeries all over the body. It mirrors a lot of the advice I've gotten from my school's interest group but it's very nice to have it reiterated/in this formatWear this shirt to interviews...guaranteed to match 100%:Anyone heard anything about the new standardized letter or recommendation/ SLOR? I think if you LOVE the nervous system and being a hero, saving lives, then neurosurg is for you. Neurosurg is also more research oriented as most if not all programs are academic.

They say MSK pain/problems is 80% of a general medicine practice. My school used them exclusively last yearGreat guide...Would be awesome if anyone had something like this for plastics!New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be castPress J to jump to the feed. But since i saw a derm post, we should be goodBackground: I'm a board certified orthopaedic surgeon. You just have to kill your sub-I rotation.Thanks for the great write-up! And this segment of pay i believe will likely increase in the future.I'll try to edit stuff down the road. If you fail, you will be ridiculed and bring shame to your program. Thus people often do work over 60+ hours a week because you're either all in or not making money. Here is a document talking about the orthopaedic application/away rotation process starting in 3rd year.

And if you're talking about spine and back pain?

Banged your knee up playing soccer? ?Hoppenfelds for surgical approaches. This is a subreddit specifically for interns and residents to get together and discuss issues concerning their training and medicine/surgery. Depending on the program, you should be mostly surgery heavy. Out of control. You can do as much or as little as you want. But more helpful would be if you "fit in" like the ortho bros. And that of course is program dependent. I think some community programs did even less. Don't go MIA. I know surgeons working at Kaiser that work 35-40 hours a week and make 400k. You're gonna have to learn to love the bone.