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That's so cute 🙂
Yeah he’s one of those “sensitive” dudes. I keep him around because he feeds me

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That's so cute 🙂
That literally sounds like a win-win situation. Add in "good with dogs" and that's pretty much all of my criteria...Yeah he’s one of those “sensitive” dudes. I keep him around because he feeds me
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That literally sounds like a win-win situation. Add in "good with dogs" and that's pretty much all of my criteria...
Thanks, all I can say now is that I matched. But I also ranked a back-up specialty so its basically a waiting game to see what I do for life.
@OrthoTraumaMD is it considered a faux pas to present an abstract at more than one conference assign the conferences are different enough? What are your thoughts on 'double dipping'?
As a medical student does it matter what type of research I do as long as it’s ortho specific (and not just a case report)? The vast majority of research projects it seems like are retrospective chart reviews
I think your enthusiasm, sunny disposition, and love for your job shine through. So many of us in medicine hate our jobs and it's nice to read posts from someone so content, happy, and fulfilled.Wow. 100,000 views! I’m amazed...didn’t think it would end up so popular when I started this thread a year ago. Thanks guys. 🙂
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Wow. 100,000 views! I’m amazed...didn’t think it would end up so popular when I started this thread a year ago. Thanks guys. 🙂
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I think your enthusiasm, sunny disposition, and love for your job shine through. So many of us in medicine hate our jobs and it's nice to read posts from someone so content, happy, and fulfilled.
Absolutely required, yes. Ortho is very competitive and the average applicant has 6-7 pubs/abstracts/presentations, most in ortho.Is research in the field required for ortho? Ill have radiology experience and ortho is on my list of interests and I would probably end up taking a research year if I decide later on if its the field I want to commit to.
Thank you. The questions have allowed me to become a better mentor in my own professional life, as it helps me understand what students and residents are thinking about and worried about. So I benefit from this, too. As for the Questions and Answers consolidation, I'm not sure how I would go about doing something like that...This thread is seriously amazing for many of reasons. I still think a layout of all your Questions and Answers (/responses) should be consolidated somewhere on the thread haha
Also the above x100. This really is very true and we are also enlightened by your enthusiasm and genuineness.
And im assuming that would take the entirety of the research year, correct? Im in my gap year now and my friend said my abstracts and presentations now count towards residency apps. Does it matter if the pubs are in high impact journals/large national conference presentations? Or is it more important to just show that you are interested in research and try to be as productive as possible?Absolutely required, yes. Ortho is very competitive and the average applicant has 6-7 pubs/abstracts/presentations, most in ortho.
The latter. It's nice to have a high impact journal but any journal is good. As I said in previous posts, your enthusiasm and ability to talk coherently about your project is more important. And yes, it would take the entirety of the research year.And im assuming that would take the entirety of the research year, correct? Im in my gap year now and my friend said my abstracts and presentations now count towards residency apps. Does it matter if the pubs are in high impact journals/large national conference presentations? Or is it more important to just show that you are interested in research and try to be as productive as possible?
Thank you. The questions have allowed me to become a better mentor in my own professional life, as it helps me understand what students and residents are thinking about and worried about. So I benefit from this, too. As for the Questions and Answers consolidation, I'm not sure how I would go about doing something like that...
Haha well I don't even know how to do it! I would if I knew how... trauma is so varied in terms of how busy we are... some days I can't breathe, other days it's like this, when I'm done with cases and just hang out in my office blasting music and working on research, and just have this site in the background so I have time to answer.I doubt you would have time for something like that! I was thinking a student or someone interested in looking back through might be able to consolidate it all. (I would do this if I wasn't so busy, but maybe in the future I could)
Would recommend adding this to your CV under "community outreach"Wow. 100,000 views! I’m amazed...didn’t think it would end up so popular when I started this thread a year ago. Thanks guys. 🙂
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Would recommend adding this to your CV under "community outreach"
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But seriously, this is super helpful, thank you. For someone like me who is interested in ortho this is so valuable. I've shadowed surgeons and chatted with them in the OR and the office, but nobody has time to sit there and play 20 questions about getting into residency and going through training. So having something like this, where you are able to answer questions at your leisure and everyone can view the responses as a whole, is 😍
I think your enthusiasm, sunny disposition, and love for your job shine through. So many of us in medicine hate our jobs and it's nice to read posts from someone so content, happy, and fulfilled.
Ironically, my recent knee surgery still has my sleep patterns in shambles so I'm working on random things in the middle of the night. Give me a couple hours and I'll be done with a compiled list of questions and answers from the thread.I was going to compile all of the questions, but there are 855 posts in this thread! I was busy at work at the time but I have a few days off so I will work on it. Does someone want to help?
Ironically, my recent knee surgery still has my sleep patterns in shambles so I'm working on random things in the middle of the night. Give me a couple hours and I'll be done with a compiled list of questions and answers from the thread.
For research experiences in ERAS, do people list their research year as a single research experience or do they list each research project they worked on as a research experience? I'm just wondering what you usually see in ortho applications and how you prefer applicants to use the research experiences section. Thanks in advance!!
Hopefully it helps people navigate through if they're looking to read on certain topics. Like I said, things aren't perfectly split up, but should be fairly accurate.Wow. Thank you for doing this! I will look when on computer, can’t see it on phone.
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I have enjoyed your insights and banter. Had a research question, my school has none really and I would like to pursue some. I have reached out to various programs to help, no avail. What would you suggest as I pursue a competitive residency? Almost done with m1. Thank you.
Thank you. DO school with no associated hospital. I am looking for research into anything clinically competitive ( ophthal, surg, ent, or any other procedure heavy area). I have reached out to the ortho, ophthal, plastics residencies, nothing yet.That’s a tough one. I need more information. Is this in ortho research or something else? If your hospital has a medical school then I assume they have an ortho program. Any ortho program must do research in order to stay accredited. So when you say the school has no research what exactly do you mean?
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Thank you. DO school with no associated hospital. I am looking for research into anything clinically competitive ( ophthal, surg, ent, or any other procedure heavy area). I have reached out to the ortho, ophthal, plastics residencies, nothing yet.
Thank you. DO school with no associated hospital. I am looking for research into anything clinically competitive ( ophthal, surg, ent, or any other procedure heavy area). I have reached out to the ortho, ophthal, plastics residencies, nothing yet.
Yes, I think this would be helpful.As another 1st year DO student if i could make a suggestions (and @OrthoTraumaMD please feel free to critique this suggestion), itd be to reach out to near by universities (as you said youre in a big city there should be plenty) and if you cant get a hold of clinical research done by an ortho surgeon try reaching out to biomechanics researchers (check to make sure theyre doing ortho relevant research first and publishing obviously). Some of our biomechanists publish in sports med and ortho journals, so its definitely an avenue you can look into if it interests you.
Thank you.As another 1st year DO student if i could make a suggestions (and @OrthoTraumaMD please feel free to critique this suggestion), itd be to reach out to near by universities (as you said youre in a big city there should be plenty) and if you cant get a hold of clinical research done by an ortho surgeon try reaching out to biomechanics researchers (check to make sure theyre doing ortho relevant research first and publishing obviously). Some of our biomechanists publish in sports med and ortho journals, so its definitely an avenue you can look into if it interests you.
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That's awesome!! That's exactly what I was think about. Glad someone was able to do it.
@OrthoTraumaMD I think it would be helpful, if somehow possible, to sticky these. Are there moderators that can do this for the thread? I'n not too familiar how it works but wouldn't want to lose those amidst more questions.
Thanks! It was a little overwhelming until I divided it up-- about 73 pages filled with walls of text. More docs can be more annoying, but my hope is that it's easier to navigate that way.@ekmf27050
That's awesome!! That's exactly what I was think about. Glad someone was able to do it.
@OrthoTraumaMD I think it would be helpful, if somehow possible, to sticky these. Are there moderators that can do this for the thread? I'n not too familiar how it works but wouldn't want to lose those amidst more questions.
Thanks! It was a little overwhelming until I divided it up-- about 73 pages filled with walls of text. More docs can be more annoying, but my hope is that it's easier to navigate that way.
Also, in training for the competitive field that is orthopedics, I slipped in some sabotage advice a few pages deep in some of the documents. Things like "Throw ice chips at your resident every 3 weeks to keep them on their toes" and "Breathe heavily at your attending in the OR to establish dominance"
*No, I didn't really do that
**Or did I?
Bonus points if it's an actual Darth Vader voice changer under your mask when you do itI’m going to try the “breathe heavily” tactic next time with my residents. I’m sure it will go over well
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Bonus points if it's an actual Darth Vader voice changer under your mask when you do it
Are these ortho residents gonna land sweet fellowship spots or what?
Not within the thread.@Winged Scapula
Can you help? Is this possible? To sticky something within a thread? Specifically the word documents posted on 3/31?
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I can email the originals or put them somewhere else, whatever is easiest and makes the most senseNot within the thread.
However if someone wants to create a new thread with the document in it I can sticky that or if someone wants to send me the document as an email attachment I can create my own thread and sticky if you guys would find it helpful.