04-27-2022, 08:25 AM
(04-19-2022, 06:32 PM)Guest Wrote: Is ortho residency lifestyle actually better tho? They work long hours too so its no walk in the park
Ortho residency is is a walk in the park. Where I trained the pgy-2-3 years were brutal, and I've heard that from other friends at other locations. Lots of call and not as much OR. And remember there are a lot more bones in the body than shunts, so every bone problem is a consult for you. pgy 4-5 depending on the service can be rough. Elective hips/shoulders, great life style. Home at a reasonable hour, weekends free, not really any emergency stuff. However, trauma is terrible. they did a month at a time, and as a 4-5 you were essentially at the hospital that entire month most days and nights. Great operative experience since that's all you did. but not so great for lifestyle..... as for spine, where I trained, ortho did 3-4 mo total in residency. None of them while I was there went into spine, so the Ortho PA did the majority of the cases. As for neurosurgery, we all did a significant amount of spine, some more than others. I did about 40% spine, some junior guys who wanted to do more spine were more 70-80%. Neurosurgery does way more spine in residency, which someone posted some papers about earlier in the thread. but when you get into practice you will find people don't care who they go to for spine. They just want to see someone. And honestly most lay people are surprised that neurosurgeons do spine. I wasn't expecting that.
