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Temple University Hospital
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| City | Philadelphia |
| State/Province | Pennsylvania |
| Website | http://templeortho.net/ |
Temple University Hospital Orthopedic Surgery Residency Program
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A chief residents reflection
| Overall rating: | 9.8 | |
| Staff Surgeons: | 10.0 | |
| Didactics/Teaching: | 10.0 | |
| Operating Experience: | 10.0 | |
| Clinical Experience: | 10.0 | |
| Research: | 9.0 | |
| Residents: | 10.0 | |
| Lifestyle: | 10.0 | |
| Location: | 9.0 | |
| Overall Experience: | 10.0 |
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Program Review
| Staff/Faculty/Chairman |
Excellent faculty. Most are very patient & let the residents do cases independantly at an appropriate level. For example: PGY2s do femoral/tibial nails, I&Ds, simple hand/foot&ankle cases w/ chief residents supervising and beginning to do joints. See an ton of sports but less involved as PGY2. PGY 3,4,5 do almost all cases independantly w/ attending present to teach. All are at an academic program because they love teaching residents. Most are fellowship trained. For the first time ever in the programs 70 year history we now have representation by all subspecialities (trauma, hand, joints, spine, sports, foot & ankle, peds, & oncology). Historically we never had musculoskeletal oncology, which we now get w/ Dick Schmidt at Fox Chase Cancer Center at PGY3s. We've had foot & ankle on/off like many programs, however just hired an excellent foot & ankle surgeon that the Jefferson residents used to work with. Furthermore, the staff we work with at the outside hospitals during our 1 & 1/2 years as PGY3 & 4 are all incredible for all the same reasons above. The chairman is awesome! Everyone loves him despite his quite demeanor. He loves to hangout/party, takes the residents out for drinks every month or two and throws a party at his house every month or two. Residents and the faculty love being at Temple because of the close knit family feeling the prgram has. |
| Didactics/Teaching | One of the strong suits of the program, and frankly the reason I choose Temple. We have conference every morning at Temple, Abington, & Shriners (>90% of your residency). I'm lazy and wouldn't have read nearly as much as I did if they wasn't required daily reading. I also didn't want the many programs that have 3-4 hour conferences one day a week because most residents cram it in the night before & don't learn as much. It's hard work either way, but you'll learn more with daily conferences. |
| Operating Experience | Another historically strong part of the program. Residents that leave Temple are confortable doing anything when they leave (equals parts due to the volume, and variety, and the autonomy we get in the OR) |
| Clinic Experience | Historically one of the weaker points (although residents loved not having a ton of office hours until they got into practice) because we were traditionally organized by services (joint, trauma, sports, hand, etc). A couple residents cover a couple of attendings, and you end up in the OR 4-5 days a week, so minimal clinic/office time. Unlike a preceptorship program where each resident is paired with an attending and are in the OR 2 days and office 3 days. Currently we have a hybrid system, part preceptorship & part services. The PGY2s and 5s are on services at Temple (so the PGY5's can supervise & teach the PGY2s). As 3s and 4s your either at one of the outside hospitals most of which are preceptorship rotations at Temple (like Spine), so I think it's a nice balance of not being stuck in an office more than 2 days a week, but we get enough time to not be clueless in office hours when we get into practice. The best part of our clinical experience is our weekly resident run clinics, especially our 9 months at Abington. We enjoy a ton of autonomy and make attending level decisions with an attending present for questions and to confirm plans. |
| Research Opportunities | Another historically weakness at Temple. Still not our strongest part of the program, but there are many more resources in place now to assist in doing projects than there ever were(research coordinator, statistician, new incredible medical school with top notch research space). Furthermore, our program director is far more involved (borderline shoving the research down our throats, but that's often necessary to motivation us to get something worthwhile done - an ortho resdinecy requirement). Consequently the quality and volume of research we are all involved in has significantly improved. We also have our own research journal so it's easy to get your projects at least published somewhere. The awesome reward of publishing our projects is our generous alumni fund that sponsors all conferences we present at and rewards us by paying for us to go to a resident course of our choosing (in addition to the already paid for AO basic and advanced course as PGY2 and 5, and the academy meeting as a PGY5). |
| Residents | A great group, like most ortho programs. Probably middle of the road from party animals to nerds. We don't go out 4-5 times a week and get wasted, but we're also not too beat down with long hours/academics/or research that we rarely go out together. Because we spread out across the Philadelphia area we probably only get out as residents 3-4 times per month (once for journal club at the nicest restaraunts in Philly, once for drinks with the chairman or at his place, and then depending on the individuals 0-8 times more a month as small groups to hangout, play softball, play golf, pick up chicks, go to the bars, etc. We all have a fair amount of free time and most of you spend a lot of time on our personal interests (one chief races motocross, many of us are remodeling our homes) or hanging out with friends/family (for those that grew up around here) or spouses/kids/signficant others. |
| Lifestyle | See "Residents" above. The upside on not logging 3000 plus cases over 4 years is you have enough time to do the things that you want outside of orthopedics and most importantly can maintain good relationships with your loved ones (I've maintained a very helthy marriage and raised 3 kids during my residency). While clearly all residents today get less OR cases than before the work hour rules, I love my post-call days off to do whatever I want. |
| Location/Housing |
Temple hospital is in one of the most dangerous shit holes in the country, but that's what makes it such a great place to work (tons of GSW victims & patients that are happy anyone is taking care of them, even if you're just a medical student- thus the ability to treat patients with a lot of autonomy as a resident). As far as housing is concerned it has to be one of the best places to be a resident. Philly is the cheapest metropolitan city in the couuntry, so get all the benefits of living in or near a big city, unlike all of the more rural programs, but there is also affordable housing, unlike New York. It also must be one of the most diverse programs in terms of the housing options. What do you want? It's here. Want to be downtown? Center city is as metropolitan as New York or Chicago. A plethora of incredible restaraunts, clubs, bars, museums, & a relatively young & vibrant population. If you loved your college life and want to relive that go to the Manayunk area. Many of us with families live in the slightly quieter suburbs in Montgomery county, New Jersey, or Delaware. |
| Limitations | Very few currently. Coming from California, people are in general a little more uptight out here (1 or 2 of the attendings can be malignant, and some of the previous residents were more high strung than necessary, but it's no worse than anywhere else on the East coast from what I can tell). Having only rotated at west coast programs, and never being at midwest/southern programs I can say whether this is more or less than these other areas. Also, half of me wishes the PGY2s could operate by themselves with an attending, like a preceptorship program does, rather than with a chief resident, but there are plusses and minuses to both. The downside of PGY2's being by themselves with an attending is they are often not doing much (they get stuck with the attendings that don't let residents operate with autonomy). In our system if you have good chief residents (unlike a few of mine) they let the 2s operate more. The culture has changed a lot in the last couple years- not that it was terrible, but almost no malignancy currently. |
| Overall Rotation Experience/Conclusion | An excellent place to learn orthopaedic surgery. Obviously I'm baised because I've only been a resident here, so can't really compare to other places, but I can say we are all very happy to be graduating from Temple when we're done - we all feel priviledged. I'm also biased because I want people to think highly of Temple and I want good applicants to want to come here, however I have said nothing misleading & Ive been tremendously open/honest above because I don't want anyone to come here and be unhappy. |
Qualification
| I am a current resident of this program. | |
| Date of Rotation | 6/2006 to 6/2011 |
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