Ortho reading

[c diddy]

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orthopods-
how much do you guys typically have to read as residents? i can see that medical residents and others definitely need to read like hell, but is it the same with ortho? in my inexperienced opinion, ortho appears obviously much more hands-on than anything else, so does the majority of your education come from procedures/surgeries, or do you spend significant time in the books, or both? thanks a lot.

 

[flashman]

I just rotated on a month of ortho and their residents read 40-90 pages 4-5 days per week. I would ask them how do you do it? They would simply say they didn't sleep. I gained a lot of respect for the field from that--it did seem very hands on, but very detail oriented too.

 

[IMnailer]

Flashman is right. There is alot of reading combined with the busy hours. Doing stuff hands on only gets you so far, understanding important anatomy, biomechanics, implant characteristics etc... provides you with a foundation to apply the hands on learning. Remember, it's dangerous to do things when you don't truly understand the "how or why" underlying your actions.

 

[Cassidy61]

All of medschool is about IM. So, when you do ortho, you are basically starting from scratch. Take a look at the four volume Campbell's!!!

 

[huktonfonix]

Yup, have you seen some of those OITE questions? Holy crap...

 

[LuckyMD2b]

Originally posted by IMnailer
... provides you with a foundation to apply the hands on learning. Remember, it's dangerous to do things when you don't truly understand the "how or why" underlying your actions.

I don't think that's true. Medicine is primarily an empirical field by nature; and the rational aspects, while important, are often overrated.

You don't have to know every enzyme in the insulin signaling pathway to understand that non-insulin dependent diabetes is strongly correlated to a person's weight and that if people lost weight symptoms may improve.

You don't need to know what genes are mutated in colon CA to realize that it should be treated with resection.

The guys who invented anti-septic surgery, and penicillin didn't know how these things worked, but they did know it kept people from dying.

...just my 50cent