Time spent during ortho residency

[boobah]

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Could some ortho residents comment on how their time is spent during residency; how many days are you in clinic seeing patients, how much time is spent in lecture, on average how much time do you spend reading or tx planning each day, how much time do you spend doing lab work, when during your first year do you start seeing patients?

 

[charlestweed]

We see patients right from the start of the program; each resident gets about 50 patients. During the first 2 wks, we learn how to move teeth on a typodont. There are a lot of wire bending exercises. We are required to take classes with other residents: Head/Neck anatomy, oral path, statistics (for those who want to get MS), radiology… and more. We also have our own regular ortho lectures taught by our prog director and dept chair. We have lit review every week. A couple of part-time instructors also give mini lectures, but they are mostly in the clinic. The prog director gives us ortho exam every quarter to check on us… making sure that we are not messing around.

We have to make all ortho appliances, pour and trim our own study models.😱 The 1st year resident sees about 5-6 patients a day. If we are done and there is no lecture, we can home early…some use this time to work on their MS thesis. In the beginning of the 2nd year, the pt load is much more b/c we get about 50-60 patients from our big sib and the big sib before that (some out of control cases get dragged on to 3-4 years👎).

The best part of the residency is you have a chance to travel a lot for CE lectures, AAO meetings, Tweed class, and GORP etc. Mine is a lay back 2-year residency and there are plenty of free times👍. It is not as hard as OS, perio or prosth residency. I know the UNC and Eastman residents will describe the opposite…they are both very strong programs.

 

[docj1]

We see patients right from the start of the program; each resident gets about 50 patients. During the first 2 wks, we learn how to move teeth on a typodont. There are a lot of wire bending exercises. We are required to take classes with other residents: Head/Neck anatomy, oral path, statistics (for those who want to get MS), radiology… and more. We also have our own regular ortho lectures taught by our prog director and dept chair. We have lit review every week. A couple of part-time instructors also give mini lectures, but they are mostly in the clinic. The prog director gives us ortho exam every quarter to check on us… making sure that we are not messing around.

We have to make all ortho appliances, pour and trim our own study models.😱 The 1st year resident sees about 5-6 patients a day. If we are done and there is no lecture, we can home early…some use this time to work on their MS thesis. In the beginning of the 2nd year, the pt load is much more b/c we get about 50-60 patients from our big sib and the big sib before that (some out of control cases get dragged on to 3-4 years👎).

The best part of the residency is you have a chance to travel a lot for CE lectures, AAO meetings, Tweed class, and GORP etc. Mine is a lay back 2-year residency and there are plenty of free times👍. It is not as hard as OS, perio or prosth residency. I know the UNC and Eastman residents will describe the opposite…they are both very strong programs.

Charlestweed, when you say out of control cases are you referring to cases that have patient compliance problems, loss of anchorage or difficult cases in general?

Thanks

 

[charlestweed]

Charlestweed, when you say out of control cases are you referring to cases that have patient compliance problems, loss of anchorage or difficult cases in general?

Thanks

Yes, mostly poor patient compliance (excessive breakage, lots of no shows, poor elastic wear, poor HG wear, poor oral hygiene etc). There were cases that should have been treated surgically (open bite, large overjet etc.) or should have been a 4 bi extraction case. Some patients have late growth spurt… we started out with class I malocclusion and 2 years later pt develops into a full step class III.

Sometimes, residents want to try out new things and mess up the case i.e. root resorption due to excessive force, over-extrude posterior teeth (this happens a lot especially when they do molar uprighting… a simple 12-month case becomes a 36-month case).

There are a few cases like these at my own office too… and I hope that there won't be a lot of these. You will lose money, your GP's trust, and your patient's trust.

 

[kato999]

We stay pretty busy up here at Minnesota as well, but I absolutely love the program. We see patients in the clinic 4 days with Thursday dedicated to research and classes for our MS. We typically have class from 8-9am and 1-2pm everyday before clinic. We also had a head and neck anatomy class from 6-9 at night the first summer with the other ENT, OMS and Perio residents.

Our first year we start about 70 cases and then will get another 60-70 cases our second year as transfers from our big sib or new patients cases. We send our impressions to “emodel” which cuts a lot of lab time plus we have a full time lab tech that helps the 2nd year with all their lab work. As first years we will fabricate most of our own appliances though. I would say we average about 8 to 6pm M-F with Thursdays being a little lighter. Hope this helps.

 

[QCkid]

This is good info. Can anyone else comment on their schedule?