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Website: http://www.orthonet.pitt.edu/
City: Pittsburgh
State/Province: Pennsylvania
Residents per class: 8
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Orthopedic Surgery Residency Program


User reviews

Average user rating from: 2 user(s)

Overall rating
8.4
Staff Surgeons
9.5
Didactics/Teaching
8.0
Operating Experience
7.5
Clinical Experience
9.0
Research
10.0
Residents
8.0
Lifestyle
7.0
Location
8.5
Overall Experience
8.5
 

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UPMC Review, Saturday, 16 February 2008

Written by BWBobcat   -  View all my reviews  - Top 50 Reviewer

Overall rating
9.1
Staff Surgeons
10.0
Didactics/Teaching
9.0
Operating Experience
8.0
Clinical Experience
10.0
Research
10.0
Residents
9.0
Lifestyle
8.0
Location
8.0
Overall Experience
10.0
Program Information
Staff/Faculty/Chairman: The staff at UPMC are all experts in their respective fields; in my experience they were all also interested in teaching residents, often printing out new literature on a topic to give to the resident or medical student. Dr. Fu is also an excellent chairman, who takes immense pride in the residency and is also willing to do all the legwork to keep the program functioning at a top level.
Didactics/Teaching: As above, teaching in the OR was excellent. Teaching in clinic can suffer sometimes due to the high volume, but residents and medical students see all new patients and present to the attending, then accompany the attending in for the evaluation.
Didactics occur at trauma/ fracture conference, which occurs 7 days a week for about 30 mins. The teaching is excellent, but residents and medical students are expected to know their stuff and can expect to be embarassed if they don't. Full didactics are Wednesdays and are protected time. I was less impressed with these lectures, although they are all by faculty. They just sometimes feel a bit crammed.
Operating Experience: I thought the residents operated well and often, especially from the 3 year on. It has come to my attention, however, that on some services this happens more than others. Fellows certainly do play a role in the operative experience, although often there is little overlap in cases, with a senior running one room and a fellow the other.
Clinic Experience: Clinic space is beautiful and well run, but like I said, the volume is high so attendings will not often stop to emphasize teaching points. Residents will see all new patients, however, and a lot can be learned from repetition.
Research Opportunities: Pitt is a research factory. There is literally about a dozen labs running high level orthopaedic research. The infrastrcture is in place for a resident who is interested to easily get involved.
Residents: I really liked the residents at Pitt. They are all very smart, very impressive people who like to teach. But they weren't bookish, and they loved to party, too. I think this is a major strength of the program.
Lifestyle: Depends on the rotation. PGY-2s get killed on trauma, etc. From 3-year on, though, things are fairly cushy.
Location/Housing: Pittsburgh has a lot to offer, and the housing market is CHEAP. It can't be beat. Downside is that it's not a bustling singles scene.
Overall Rotation Experience/Conclusion: I consider Pitt to be one of the finest programs in the country that I was exposed to. I thought the fellows were a little bit of a downside, but the facilities, faculty, residents, and the opportunities Pitt affords after graduation are tough to beat.
Qualification
I rotated as a medical student at this program
Date of Rotation: Summer-Fall '07
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

Pitt, Sunday, 13 January 2008

Written by riverdog99   -  View all my reviews  - Top 10 Reviewer

Overall rating
7.8
Staff Surgeons
9.0
Didactics/Teaching
7.0
Operating Experience
7.0
Clinical Experience
8.0
Research
10.0
Residents
7.0
Lifestyle
6.0
Location
9.0
Overall Experience
7.0
Program Information
Staff/Faculty/Chairman: Big names, especially in sports with Fu and Harner. Fu works very hard to make the Pitt name very reputable.
Didactics/Teaching: Half hour trauma conference every morning to go over what came in the previous night. Med students and residents get pimped thoroughly.
Wednesday morning devoted entirely to didactics. I can't focus that long and don't learn much after an hour of lecture. I would much prefer a short conference each day rather than one lump sum on Wednesday.
Operating Experience: Can only speak to trauma and sports. Trauma wsa very good. Residents did the cases and appeared comfortable and skilled doing them. A lot of operating during the night too (at least during late summer months when I was there)
Sports... fellows and attendings do the case. Junior resident was often double scrubbed and even the senior resident did a lot of watching during the important parts of the cases (drilling tunnels, tensioning grafts...)
Clinic Experience: can only speak to sports clinic... beautiful clinic facility. Take care of real athletes. Less instruction and teaching from attendings than I have seen at other institutions where I rotated.
Research Opportunities: Incredible funding and opportunity. 4 of 8 residents do a research year. Great place to go if you're looking to churn out papers and go in to academics.
Residents: Larger program, more residents, less cohesive than I have seen on other rotations. There were definitely some great guys there, but there were also a few residents who were a little stiff.
Seems like it is about half married, half single.
Lifestyle: Get worked pretty hard as a junior resident with call. Trauma was a killer rotation. Of course that is true everywhere, but significantly more busy than the 3 other programs I am familiar with. Gets better as you get older.
Location/Housing: Pittsburgh is under-appreciated as a city. It's not a steel factory anymore. Downtown is very nice. Plenty of places to go out. Very affordable. Most residents own homes. Takes a while to learn all the crazy winding roads.
Overall Rotation Experience/Conclusion: Big names. Great research opportunity. Junior residents get worked very hard. Would be a great place to go if one is looking to be an academician.
Qualification
I rotated as a medical student at this program
Date of Rotation: 2006
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