Specific Advice for Matching into Orthopaedic Surgery

The series of prior posts regarding med school have been fairly general, with the purpose of lending advice to all med students. Even my examples relating to Orthopaedic Surgery have been broadly applicable. But in this section I focus on items that may only apply to Ortho. This section will be more concise and direct. Specifically, these are the main criteria to consider:

  1. Are you competitive for Orthopaedic Surgery?

  2. Your Home Ortho program

  3. Blue collar vs. White collar programs

  4. Away rotations

  5. Ortho application, signaling, interviews and Matching

Let’s start.