Ortho away rotations at top schools as an average applicant
Hello everyone, I’m a 3rd year med student looking for advice on choosing away rotations for orthopedic surgery. I think my stats are pretty average for an ortho applicant: Med School – Top 20 MD...
View ArticleForearm Compartment Pressures
You’re on hand call and are consulted to evaluate a patient for forearm compartment syndrome. Does your team see the patient and perform the compartment pressure assessment, or do you tell the primary...
View ArticleLooking for ideas for Senior Design Project
Hello all, I am a senior bioengineering student that is also planning on going to medical school (waiting to hear about interviews!). Orthopedic Surgery is one of our topics of interest (also my...
View ArticleHow to assess skill in orthopedic surgery
I have a question for practicing orthopedic surgeons. Assume you were somewhere where you did not know any colleagues to recommend a surgeon to you and needed orthopedic surgery for something routine...
View ArticleAny orthos in Florida willing to have a shadow?
Hello everyone, I am an accepted student to an osteopathic school and would like to shadow someone in the field. I am very interested in ortho and would love to connect with some ortho physicians. I am...
View Articlelife saving surgeries
Do orthopedic surgeons perform any life saving surgeries? I've heard surgery for nec fasc might being something like that besides that it seems like you're almost always saving limbs rather than lives
View ArticleUPenn vs. Byrn Mawr PostBac
Hi everyone. I am having a lot of trouble deciding on what school to attend for postbac. I know Bryn Mawr is the most prestigious school for premed postbac, but I really had my heart set on UPenn prior...
View ArticleHello I am interested in ortho surgery but find the amount of books to master...
I checked out the operative techniques books and found out they are 5 volumes of books ONLY for the procedures then you have apleys ortho for non-procedural orthopedics then a book for basic science of...
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