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generally speaking, how does podiatric surgery rank among surgical specialties with regards to difficutly/interest?
I have shadowed both surgeons and pods but can't imagine I will really understand what its like until 3rd/4th yr or residency. So I guess another way of stating the question would be to ask if you got to residency and thought "****, that is way more interesting than rearfoot surgery?"
I understand pod surgery may have a completely different style or skill set when compared to others like cardio or neuro. For example, I imagine pod surgery is probably more about biomechanics while cardio more about hand technique. I also understand there is probably a wide range of difficulty in all these specialties.
I also would be interested to hear your general opinions about doing pod surgery: do you like it? is it fun? is it tedious? Do you try and avoid it in your practice? Do you think 10 years from now you will be doing more or less surgery? etc.
I have shadowed both surgeons and pods but can't imagine I will really understand what its like until 3rd/4th yr or residency. So I guess another way of stating the question would be to ask if you got to residency and thought "****, that is way more interesting than rearfoot surgery?"
I understand pod surgery may have a completely different style or skill set when compared to others like cardio or neuro. For example, I imagine pod surgery is probably more about biomechanics while cardio more about hand technique. I also understand there is probably a wide range of difficulty in all these specialties.
I also would be interested to hear your general opinions about doing pod surgery: do you like it? is it fun? is it tedious? Do you try and avoid it in your practice? Do you think 10 years from now you will be doing more or less surgery? etc.