ortho rotation prep

[ruiner]

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I'll be doing an ortho away on a sports med service as my first 4th year rotation. I searched the forum, but all posts about this were quite old. Any advice on good basic overview book to read so I have some knowledge, as my third year surgery rotation was 8 weeks of general surgery and only place I've really gotten any ortho is actually on family med. Appreciate it.

 

[bleeker10]

I'll be doing an ortho away on a sports med service as my first 4th year rotation. I searched the forum, but all posts about this were quite old. Any advice on good basic overview book to read so I have some knowledge, as my third year surgery rotation was 8 weeks of general surgery and only place I've really gotten any ortho is actually on family med. Appreciate it.

If you are going to apply to ortho for residency, you need these books:

Netter's Concise Atlas of Orthopaedic Anatomy
Handbook of Fractures


Also orthobullets.com for quick reference stuff.

 

[skiz knot]

Get a book on basic physical examination of the shoulder and knee. There is one called Basic Orthopaedic Exams by Zachary Child that is pretty good.

 

[DwightSchruteDO]

another solid physical exam book is "Hoppenfeld's Physical examination of the spine and extremities".

 

[ruiner]

Thanks for the replies. Grabbing netters and the handbook, but quick question on hoppenfelds. You're the second person today to recommend it (sports med family med doc today told me I had to get it), but is there really only the one edition from 76?

 

[DwightSchruteDO]

Thanks for the replies. Grabbing netters and the handbook, but quick question on hoppenfelds. You're the second person today to recommend it (sports med family med doc today told me I had to get it), but is there really only the one edition from 76?

yes sir. i thought the same thing when I got is as a first year med student but that first and only edition is gold; I guess that's why they never had the need to make a newer edition. I didn't buy it, just acquired a pdf of it.

Hit up youtube; type in the name of the tests and there are plenty of videos that demonstrate each clinical exam.

I reread your first post...if you are not going into orthopedics then you don't really need to buy these books. look around for the pdf of netter's and hoppenfeld. I doubt you will need hand book of fractures on a sports med rotation.
Aside from knowing an awesome physical exam...I think you may be able to get away with just orthobullets.com (the anatomy and common sports med injuries); def know shoulder and knee anatomy.

 

[bleeker10]

Yea I said handbook of fractures as a general book anyone applying ortho should buy. You can google ortho special exams and get some good pdfs and sites detailing them. Also youtube is helpful. I wanted to hold off on purchasing expensive texts until I was a resident.

Knowing anatomy cold will be the best thing you can do. Since you are doing sports, you definitely need to know shoulder/knee as the previous poster said. It will also be good to get the anatomy during arthroscopy down quickly. Repetition and watching youtube videos will help with this.

 

[Sam212]

Hoppenfeld Surgical approaches is another book you may want to consider. It's expensive!! but you may have an online subscription through your library. I felt it really helped me with approaches/operative anatomy. Ask your residents the day before what approach would be used. Go over it and you'll be money in the OR.

 

[ruiner]

yes sir. i thought the same thing when I got is as a first year med student but that first and only edition is gold; I guess that's why they never had the need to make a newer edition. I didn't buy it, just acquired a pdf of it.

Hit up youtube; type in the name of the tests and there are plenty of videos that demonstrate each clinical exam.

I reread your first post...if you are not going into orthopedics then you don't really need to buy these books. look around for the pdf of netter's and hoppenfeld. I doubt you will need hand book of fractures on a sports med rotation.
Aside from knowing an awesome physical exam...I think you may be able to get away with just orthobullets.com (the anatomy and common sports med injuries); def know shoulder and knee anatomy.

I'll check that site out for sure. And I am applying ortho so definitely looking for the stuff you guys recommend for 4th year students/interns. It's a sports med rotation, but its ortho sports med so I assume it'll still be a lot of OR time. My school only allows a couple rotations in each speciality so with something like ortho you have to be a little creative to get extra ones.

 

[Buckeye(OH)]

another solid physical exam book is "Hoppenfeld's Physical examination of the spine and extremities".

I bought this book way back when I was a medical student. I thought it was complete garbage. Its sitting here collecting dust.

 

[DwightSchruteDO]

better to look for the pdf