Life after Trauma Fellowship

[corona247]

Ortho resident here interested in Trauma. I know there is quite a lot of variability in practice setup, but I am trying to find the current trends, and future trends in practice setup for traumatologists. Do most work in acedemic setting? Current chief at my program is going into trauma, has postioned lined up where his group splits call 1:6, with anything coming in overnight, is seen by on call ortho doc (whether its trauma doc or any other ortho doc) that night, and put on the board the the next days trauma doc who is on - is that common?
I am interested in trauma, but have told "you'll be on call for the rest of your life" I wonder if the future trend is more towards a shift work setup.

Appreciate any input from you all.

thanks

[mwsortho]

obviously it depends on what you can find and possibly what geographic location you want to be in. the job you described above it realistic. i know of a group that i may join that has 17 partners, including two traumatologists. the oncall MD just beds everything down for the night and the two trauma guys alternate days at the hospital/clinic taking whatever came in overnight. furthermore, they have worked it out so that the two trauma guys don't take any overnight call, but alternate weekends from 7-noon and just come in and take care of everything from the night before and then leave and then their partners are oncall for the rest of the weekend day/night. it works for them and all of the partners. this is also in a community setting at at referral center so the trauma guys always have a good flow of cases.

just food for thought...there are definitely different options out there and your life doesn't have to be horrible just because you like trauma and you don't have to be at an academic center to have a good setup

[corona247]

Thanks for the response. The type of position you mention is exactly what I was looking for. My hope is that in the future, that type of pratice setup will be common.