Any info on Ingham, St. Joseph, Affinity, and FL programs?

[orthodo123]

Any info on Ingham, St. Joseph, Affinity, and FL programs?

[OrthoChiDO]

Check the residency review forums; I know I posted one on Ingham. PM me for more info about that one. Can't help you with the others.

[buccos27]

St. Joes is an excellent program. 2 main hospitals: St. Joseph Warren (200 some bed level 3 trauma center) and St Elizabeth Youngstown (level 1 trauma center). They are about 12 miles of 4 lane highway apart. Residents take nighly ortho call at both places so it is home call though most of the time the resident on call is busy taking calls at both places. Also work at St. Elizabeth Boardman, Akron childrens (peds), and various outpatient surgery centers depending on rotation. All sub specialties are covered in the area. No moving required. By comparison almost all DO programs ship you out for at least 1 if not more rotations. 3 main DO attendings at St. Joes in Warren (2 general, 1 sports/ general). All subspecialties with St. E’s attendings. Almost all are MDs and fellowship trained at excellent institutions. Very high case volume and tons of OR experience starting pgy 2. Lots of trauma experience and grads are excellent technicians. Residents speak very highly of the program. Little to no office time on St. Joseph rotations, meaning you are operating everyday. Two residents per year and everyone looks out for each other. All of the guys are extremely hard workers but laid back at the same time. They all do a good job teaching medical students. Mix of married with kids and single residents.

Miller review and fracture conference weekly. Weekly trauma conference at St E’s. Selected review articles weekly. OITE review weekly Friday afternoons. Monthly journal club. Selection of residents is largely based on face time, working as hard and as much as possible, and knowing your ortho (fracture handbook, reading films, ortho anatomy etc.). More than a month rotation is highly desirable (eg. Going to conferences during other rotations, possibly even more than a month rotation). Many of the residents spent time outside of their audition rotation hanging out with the program and/or rotated more than 1 month. The residents and St. Joes attendings vote on who is selected. Only interview rotators but a few rotators that are disliked do not get interviews. If the residents do not know you at least fairly well by the interview day your chances are significantly reduced. Medical student housing is available for cost in a house across the street from the hospital or an apartment down the road. The downside, Youngstown is a pretty crappy area though you will be way too busy to care anyway. Easy drive to Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Definitely one of the best DO ortho residencies.