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IlizaRob said:
Touche! :laugh: Im just trying to get my posts up so I can be in the cool 500 club like you and JonWill
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Trash talk doesn't count. That is why I'm only at 600 posts and not 1600 post 😀
 
krabmas said:
how so?
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As per Dr. Sigvard Hansen (it is in the functional anatomy chapter of his textbootk), there is more motion in the lateral column (4th metatarsal - cuboid and 5th metatarsal - cuboid) than in the medial / middle columns (1st, 2nd, 3rd metatarsals with their respective cuneiforms). "Mobility in the sagittal plane of the cuboid articulation with the fourth and fifth metatarsals cushions the lateral column and it must be preserved for two important reasons. First, motion in the cuboid is limited to one plane, and second, the lateral border is the first area of contact with the ground during foot strike." Hence, the lateral column motion is important during load bearing and weight transfer during gait. During Lisfranc's arthrodesis, one would commonly fuse the medial and middle columns with screws after denuding the cartilage at those joints. However, when one gets to the lateral column, the lateral column would not get fused (even though the medial and middle columns are being fused) and the surgeon would just perform ORIF of the lateral column and usually fixate the lateral column with K-wires. The goal is to perserve the range of motion in the lateral column. Of course, there will be cases where one must perform an arthrodesis of the lateral column. Hopefully, this answer your question. I am quoting from Sigvard Hansen's book because this is the book that we use as a reference book in my residency program. You might be able to find more information in the Myerson or Mann textbooks. I can tell you that McGlamry's book (which I do not like) do not mention anything about this.
 
Scrubbed in for the first time today. Dr. Smith performed a modified Austin, 2nd toe arthroplasty, silver osteotomy, a cheilectomy, and an osteotomy of a Tailor bunion. What kicked the most @ss was I got to close the dorsal incision on the hallux.
 
Dr_Feelgood said:
Scrubbed in for the first time today. Dr. Smith performed a modified Austin, 2nd toe arthroplasty, silver osteotomy, a cheilectomy, and an osteotomy of a Tailor bunion. What kicked the most @ss was I got to close the dorsal incision on the hallux.
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Psionic Blast could do that with his eyes closed while using only his left pinky.
 
jonwill said:
Scrubbed a 4 hour charcot reconstruction yesterday. Also did a lapidus and 1st ray resection. Good times baby!
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I'll ring my bell for you Jon. Enjoy it! No it is okay, you can dance. :clap:
 
Have you guys seen the PAs walking around campus with the new tablet PCs. Makes my gateway look like someting from a decade ago. Also the DOs got their new palms, I wonder when we get ours?
 
We need to have another worthless training session so not until we are back in school.
 
gustydoc said:
Have you guys seen the PAs walking around campus with the new tablet PCs. Makes my gateway look like someting from a decade ago. Also the DOs got their new palms, I wonder when we get ours?
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Yeah Ive seen'em. The PAs I mean, not the laptops. But I think they should upgrade our laptops too and not just the PDAs. I cant believe we have to be stuck with these gateways.
 
jonwill said:
Scrubbed a 4 hour charcot reconstruction yesterday. Also did a lapidus and 1st ray resection. Good times baby!
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I had a three hour Lisfranc's also had multiple met fractures and that was after achille's lengthening, a really cool arthroscopic plantar fasciotomy, and a ganglionic cyst and finished the day up with a exploratory scope. A typical day here in CO
 
Haffadoc said:
I had a three hour Lisfranc's also had multiple met fractures and that was after achille's lengthening, a really cool arthroscopic plantar fasciotomy, and a ganglionic cyst and finished the day up with a exploratory scope. A typical day here in CO
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Yeah but how many of them did you get to close? :laugh:

Also, did you get Ng to come to CPMS? You had better be working for SCACFAS too or I'll send Peterson after you. :laugh:
 
Haffadoc said:
I had a three hour Lisfranc's also had multiple met fractures and that was after achille's lengthening, a really cool arthroscopic plantar fasciotomy, and a ganglionic cyst and finished the day up with a exploratory scope. A typical day here in CO
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Welcome back Haff. Havent seen you around in a while. I guess you were too busy in surgery to mingle with us common folk.
 
I did my first skin-to-skin case today on a hallux amp. It was a great experience! I wonder if I can log that C case for board certification :laugh:
 
jonwill said:
I did my first skin-to-skin case today on a hallux amp. It was a great experience! I wonder if I can log that C case for board certification :laugh:
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Is Florida crazy? 🙂 Good job! Now you can come back to Iowa and teach me. Does you wife need an amp?
 
IlizaRob said:
Welcome back Haff. Havent seen you around in a while. I guess you were too busy in surgery to mingle with us common folk.
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More like haven't been able to steal a second for the internet. Plus good ole gradma's house didn't have internet. But now I am back in DM.
 
dpmgrad said:
As per Dr. Sigvard Hansen (it is in the functional anatomy chapter of his textbootk), there is more motion in the lateral column (4th metatarsal - cuboid and 5th metatarsal - cuboid) than in the medial / middle columns (1st, 2nd, 3rd metatarsals with their respective cuneiforms). "Mobility in the sagittal plane of the cuboid articulation with the fourth and fifth metatarsals cushions the lateral column and it must be preserved for two important reasons. First, motion in the cuboid is limited to one plane, and second, the lateral border is the first area of contact with the ground during foot strike." Hence, the lateral column motion is important during load bearing and weight transfer during gait. During Lisfranc's arthrodesis, one would commonly fuse the medial and middle columns with screws after denuding the cartilage at those joints. However, when one gets to the lateral column, the lateral column would not get fused (even though the medial and middle columns are being fused) and the surgeon would just perform ORIF of the lateral column and usually fixate the lateral column with K-wires. The goal is to perserve the range of motion in the lateral column. Of course, there will be cases where one must perform an arthrodesis of the lateral column. Hopefully, this answer your question. I am quoting from Sigvard Hansen's book because this is the book that we use as a reference book in my residency program. You might be able to find more information in the Myerson or Mann textbooks. I can tell you that McGlamry's book (which I do not like) do not mention anything about this.
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I might sound like an a$$ but oh well. I was just seeing what other students learn/ schools teach.

we learned it in our traumatology course from one of the profs.
 
Will,

Let us know how the "Lawns" goes this month. I want to know how many times Mandracchia throws your pocket podiatrics out the window after you try to answer a pimp question by quoting it.
 
I just wanted to post my 500th post on the DMU thread. I have officially joined the DMU 500 club. Now we can ostersize PsionicBlast, Haffadoc, Dr.Nick and GustyDoc. Those loosers. There are Kings and Pons in this world my friends, Kings and Pons.
 
IlizaRob said:
I just wanted to post my 500th post on the DMU thread. I have officially joined the DMU 500 club. Now we can ostersize PsionicBlast, Haffadoc, Dr.Nick and GustyDoc. Those loosers. There are Kings and Pons in this world my friends, Kings and Pons.
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Hey I'm getting there. Just a little over 400 posts to go. By the way it's spelled pawns your majesty. :laugh:
 
Just to keep you all updated on my oh so important life.

I am now a married woman!

And I start my first day of my first externship tomorrow.

St. Lukes Presbyterian in denver.
 
krabmas said:
Just to keep you all updated on my oh so important life.

I am now a married woman!

And I start my first day of my first externship tomorrow.

St. Lukes Presbyterian in denver.
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Congratulations on your wedding. Good luck in St. Luke's Presby externship.
 
krabmas said:
St. Lukes Presbyterian in denver.
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Sam,

Let me know how Presby goes. That is one of my big three.

Also, I just want to let everyone know that I scrubbed in for a PCDO today. Case went well, but I didn't get to do too much. I little K-wire driving, but mostly retraction and positioning.
 
krabmas said:
St. Lukes Presbyterian in denver.
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Sam,

Let me know how Presby goes. That is one of my big three.

Also, I just want to let everyone know that I scrubbed in for a PCDO today. Case went well, but I didn't get to do too much. I little K-wire driving, but mostly retraction and positioning.
 
Hmm....a long way away but I was kinda thinking about doing at least a rotation, maybe the core, in Colorado. anyways.....

For all you old guys out there, I was wondering if I should keep any of my undergrad books for some classes or not. Would they be helpful or should I try to sell them and make a buck? I have stuff like a micro book, immunology grad level book etc.

Also, how about that pre orientation stuff, how good is the turnout usually? What is worth going to and what is worth skipping? I'll be moving into 3000 grand on....July 23rd I believe.
 
I'd probably sell them. I kept my undergrad micro and biochem books, but I didn't really use them at all. They didn't have the pre-orientation stuff for my class (2008), but all of the students I talked to in the 09 class said it was a good time. I would consider going to the evening at court ave. Last year it was called a pub crawl, but I was at the planning committee meeting and they decided this year to call it dinner on Court ave. That is where all of the nightlife is in des moines so it would probably be pretty fun.
 
dpmrunner said:
Hmm....a long way away but I was kinda thinking about doing at least a rotation, maybe the core, in Colorado. anyways.....

For all you old guys out there, I was wondering if I should keep any of my undergrad books for some classes or not. Would they be helpful or should I try to sell them and make a buck? I have stuff like a micro book, immunology grad level book etc.

Also, how about that pre orientation stuff, how good is the turnout usually? What is worth going to and what is worth skipping? I'll be moving into 3000 grand on....July 23rd I believe.
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I am from CO and there are two really good places to do a rotation and then we a core with the VA Denver. I have heard and, some of the third years can tell you more, that if there is a place that you really like the school can try to get made into a core.
 
PSL is going well. Things are different out here. the old farts in NY have ancient names for things and when I get pimped I tend to look like the idiot from the boondocks because I have no idea what they are talking about.

For externs we have to do a 20 min presentation, journal club every monday (meaning read an entire journal and be prepared to present any article, we go around the table presenting articles til the journal is done so you do not know which article you will be presenting and all the students and residents have read the same article and will know if you are BSing) I am terrified for monday night.

I learn so much everyday it is unbelievable. they have their numbers by the end of the 4th month of the 2nd year for a 3 year program without unbundling.

the down side - need a car. 21 locations and 25 attendings.

residents have to write 3 papers including 2 case studies or just 2 papers.
they do presentations regularly (weekly or monthly) the first years are the busiest, work 12 hr days alot.

externs do on call at least one week night and at least one weekend. you can get paged to any of the 13 hospitals. that is alot of mapquesting.

the other locations are all surgi-centers

there is sometime spent in the attendings private practices.
 
krabmas said:
PSL is going well. Things are different out here. the old farts in NY have ancient names for things and when I get pimped I tend to look like the idiot from the boondocks because I have no idea what they are talking about.

For externs we have to do a 20 min presentation, journal club every monday (meaning read an entire journal and be prepared to present any article, we go around the table presenting articles til the journal is done so you do not know which article you will be presenting and all the students and residents have read the same article and will know if you are BSing) I am terrified for monday night.

I learn so much everyday it is unbelievable. they have their numbers by the end of the 4th month of the 2nd year for a 3 year program without unbundling.

the down side - need a car. 21 locations and 25 attendings.

residents have to write 3 papers including 2 case studies or just 2 papers.
they do presentations regularly (weekly or monthly) the first years are the busiest, work 12 hr days alot.

externs do on call at least one week night and at least one weekend. you can get paged to any of the 13 hospitals. that is alot of mapquesting.

the other locations are all surgi-centers

there is sometime spent in the attendings private practices.
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It looks like a great externship experience.
 
I meant to give you guys a good luck shout out but then I realized you don't need it. Rock out the boards and don't srew up the streak!!!! Leave that up to my class
 
Man that test was mean. I'm hoping that it went well but I'll see in 6 weeks.
 
I honestly have tortured myself last night and today. I missed so many stupid easy questions. No matter if I pass or not I am disappointed in my performance. I honestly can see it going either way. So all of my LDS friends, I need you to stop praying for our ancestors and start praying form my board score. Or at least, throw a prayer or two in for me. 😀
 
Dr_Feelgood said:
I honestly have tortured myself last night and today. I missed so many stupid easy questions. No matter if I pass or not I am disappointed in my performance. I honestly can see it going either way. So all of my LDS friends, I need you to stop praying for our ancestors and start praying form my board score. Or at least, throw a prayer or two in for me. 😀
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Don't freak yourself out too much. You'll get an ulcer! Take a vacation like IlizaRob. I wonder if he is going to visit any of the programs in AZ on his trip down there?
 
jonwill said:
Don't freak yourself out too much. You'll get an ulcer! Take a vacation like IlizaRob. I wonder if he is going to visit any of the programs in AZ on his trip down there?
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I agree that the test was bruttal, the question is should we start studing for the test in october. I really hope that it went better than I think it went. Tough, Tough, Tough. What did everyone else think about it.
 
psionic_blast said:
I agree that the test was bruttal, the question is should we start studing for the test in october. I really hope that it went better than I think it went. Tough, Tough, Tough. What did everyone else think about it.
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I feel the same way. It wasn't too bad. However, I can't wait to see the results.
 
jonwill said:
Don't freak yourself out too much. You'll get an ulcer! Take a vacation like IlizaRob. I wonder if he is going to visit any of the programs in AZ on his trip down there?
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Hello from Az my fellow DMU'ers. Its freakin hot! They're breaking records. It was like 115 today. Anyway, the test rocked me. It was tough but we will see in six weeks. My wife is getting ticked because we are on vacation yet I am still running through the questions in my mind all the time.
 
IlizaRob said:
Hello from Az my fellow DMU'ers. Its freakin hot! They're breaking records. It was like 115 today. Anyway, the test rocked me. It was tough but we will see in six weeks. My wife is getting ticked because we are on vacation yet I am still running through the questions in my mind all the time.
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I hear ya. You know what pisses me off is I missed questions that I knew. I never ever get nervous, but when I do; I fold like a little girl.

As for studying, King, I'm going to be lightly reviewing until school starts just in case the stuff hits the fan
 
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