This past Monday I started Orthopaedic Surgery in Duluth. This rotation gives you almost no responsibilities, so it's much different than my peds rotation. On one hand this makes the rotation a lot more boring, but it's nice not to be working my butt off. In general I'll be spending most of my time on the surgery side, which is about 1/2 clnic and 1/2 surgery. I'll occasionally be on the med-ortho side, which is a clnic of Family Practice docs who did a sports med fellowship. They tend to do the medical management of patients, and refer to the surgeons when appropriate. Thus, from the surgery perspective, most of the non-surgical cases get weeded out. Very efficient for all parties involved.
So far I've only spent two days in surgery, saw 4 surgeries, scrubbed in on 3, and got to close on one. While I'm not thrilled to be doing orthopaedics, I find surgery to be really cool once scrubbed in. Just watching from a distance is boring, but getting to be close to the action is cool. This is definitely making me consider general surgery as a career choice.
Posted by calv0016 at July 30, 2005 04:09 PM