This week we're joined by recurring guest Akhil Sharma, MD. Akhil is currently completing his intern year in Pennsylvania. We discuss residency and research years for applicants.
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This week we're joined by recurring guest Ken Lam, MD. Ken is currently finishing his trauma fellowship and we talk about the nuances of trauma, what to look for in a trauma job, and what he should look for next year in practice.
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This week we're joined by recurring guest Midhat Patel, MD. Midhat is a 4th year resident in Arizona. On this episode we take a deep dive into fellowship interviews, whether fellowships are necessary, and construct the ideal fellowship.
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Steadman-Hawkins Article
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/05/sports/olympics/skiing-crashes-injuries.html
This week we're joined by a panel of first and second year medical students to discuss the profession. What are resident and attending schedules like? Is the orthopedic stereotype true? What worries you about the match process? What is the favorite part about your job? What used to be a good aspect of your job that has changed?
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This week we're joined by Brendan Holderread. Brendan is a 4th year medical student who recently applied to orthopedic surgery this past cycle. Double digit virtual aways? What is it like to not match? How did you adjust your strategy to the virtual interview and aways? Are unpaid research years a form of exploitation? What will you change going forward next year? Did you consider switching specialties? Why do radiologists not help us out on post op imaging?
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This week we're joined by Michael Iloanya, MD. Dr. Iloanya is a PGY-2 at Tulane in New Orleans, LA. What is it like to have the pager for the first time? Why are we taught things in residency that don't apply in practice? What are the aspects of being a community orthopedist that nobody tells you about? Why can academics be good and bad for a fresh surgeon? What do you do if you don't match?
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This week we're joined by Dr. Scott Porter. Dr. Porter is a professor of orthopedic oncology at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville. He serves on the board of the American Orthopedic Association, American Board of Orthopedic Surgery, and is a former residency program director at GHS. This week we spend most of the discussion on entrepreneurship, getting an MBA, and his new project Just Cause Scrubs.
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Just Cause Scrubs
https://justcausescrubs.com/
From Cancer Surgeon to Entrepreneur
https://justcausescrubs.com/from-cancer-surgeon-to-entrepreneur
This week we're joined by a recurring fan favorite, Akhil "The Real Deal" Sharma. Akhil has joined us in the past to document his application journey to orthopedic surgery residency. This week we check in after universal offer day and before he begins interviews. We bounce around interview questions, talk the do's and dont's of virtual interviews, and even do a bit of a mock interview.
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This week we're joined by Hilda Kriel, MD. Dr. Kriel is a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Baylor Scott and White Hospital in Temple, Texas. She also happens to have been our chief resident. We reminisce about our time as residents, talk about our current practices, and discuss the adjustment periods in the lives of young surgeons.
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This week we're joined by Dr. Bill Weiss. Dr. Weiss is a clinical professor at UTMB in Galveston. Dr. Weiss specializes in sports medicine, arthroscopy, and foot and ankle surgery. This week we get into COVID and vaccines, the business of sports medicine, and his transition to his new job.
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This week we're joined by Mark Foreman, MD. Dr. Foreman is an orthopedic surgeon at UTMB in Galveston, TX. He currently serves as the program director there. We talk about his journey from private practice to academics, the role of a general orthopedist, what a program director looks for in an applicant, and his military service and purple heart.
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This week we're joined by Sunny Patel, MD. Dr. Patel is the first anesthesiologist to come on the podcast. He did most of his training at Mount Sinai in New York and now practices in Houston, TX. We break down the opioid epidemic and its correlation to orthopedic surgery, anesthesia vs surgery, and much more. Like, subscribe, comment on the video.
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This week we're joined by Lisa Cannada, MD. Dr. Cannada is a very accomplished orthopedic traumatologist. She served as the first female chair of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Board of Directors' Board of Specialty Societies from 2017-2018 and has published more than 130 research papers and two textbooks. She also is the former president of the Ruth Jackson Orthopedic Society. She has served as a mentor to countless medical students and residents. Most importantly, she has been able to maintain a thriving family life on top of all this. We discuss how she has managed to balance work and family, how to get more women into orthopedics, how men can serve as mentors for women in orthopedic surgery, and how to survive your first few years in practice.
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References from this episode:
Sexual harassment in orthopedic surgery trainees
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32956144/
Whicker E, Williams C, Kirchner G, Khalsa A, Mulcahey MK. What Proportion of Women Orthopaedic Surgeons Report Having Been Sexually Harassed During Residency Training? A Survey Study. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2020 Aug 26. doi: 10.1097/CORR.0000000000001454. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32956144.
Women do less complex surgeries than their male counterparts?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32941284/
Chen YW, Westfal ML, Chang DC, Kelleher CM. Under-Employment of Female Surgeons? Ann Surg. 2020 Sep 15. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000004497. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32941284. #medicine #orthopedics #surgery #doctor #medschool #residency
This week we're joined by Ronald Navarro, MD. Dr. Navarro is an orthopedic sports medicine surgeon in southern California. Dr. Navarro is the regional chief of orthopedic surgery for Kaiser Permanente, a role involving the supervision of over 200 orthopedic surgeons across 13 medical centers in the southern California region. We break down his unique perspective regarding the benefits and downsides of being a hospital employed physician, his role in leadership, and the prospects for the future of quality and value based care in orthopedic surgery.
You can find Dr. Navarro on Twitter @BoneDoc95
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This week we're joined by Akhil Sharma. Akhil is a fourth year medical student in Miami currently applying to orthopedics. We spend the episode recapping his application cycle to this point, how he's handling away rotations during the pandemic, changes to the application process, and online away rotations and webinars. This episode is informative for both students, residents, and faculty!
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This week we're joined by Midhat Patel, MD. Dr. Patel is a resident in Arizona. We spend a good amount of time just talking about our first week of being faculty and how it differs from training. We discuss EMR difficulties, clinic workflow issues, and how people treat you differently as faculty. We also spend time discussing Midhat’s spelling bee failures and the dangers of football (again).
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Open vs Arthroscopic knee washouts
Bovonratwet P, Nelson SJ, Bellamkonda K, et al. Similar 30-Day Complications for Septic Knee Arthritis Treated With Arthrotomy or Arthroscopy: An American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Analysis. Arthroscopy. 2018;34(1):213-219. doi:10.1016/j.arthro.2017.06.046
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28866341/
This week we're joined by Sean Thompson, MD. Dr. Thompson is a private orthopedic surgeon in the New York metropolitan area. He completed his orthopedic surgery residency at SUNY Stony Brook and an arthroplasty fellowship at NYU. He began his career in academics but transitioned to a solo practice years later. We discuss this transition and what it has meant for both his family and professional life. We also discuss his experiences through the pandemic, how he manages to run and maintain a successful solo practice in a major metropolitan area, and how he maintains a strong work-life balance.
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References from this episode:
Declining Football Related Head Injuries in the Youth
Kuehn BM. Football-Related Head Injuries Decline Among Children and Teens. JAMA. 2020;324(8):734. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.14163
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32840603/
This week we're joined by Amelia Bueche, DO. Dr. Bueche is a physician, author, podcaster, and physician mental health coach. She specializes in neuromusculoskeletal medicine and osteopathic manipulative medicine. She also serves as a physician life coach with a particular interest in helping with burnout. We discuss the concept of burnout, its manifestations, physician confidence, mental health, and what we can do to prevent it.
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Is medical training a human rights violation?
https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2019/06/our-doctors-are-suffering-from-human-rights-violations-in-medicine.html