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Welcome to the Orthogate Career Planning & Contract Resource Center. Navigating the transition from training to practice—or evaluating a mid-career transition—requires clear financial data, legal insight, and strategic practice management tools. Explore our curated library of in-depth educational guides and interactive AI prompts and calculators. Compare regional MGMA compensation percentiles, evaluate wRVU production thresholds, analyze restrictive covenants, and navigate private practice partnership equity with confidence.

Orthopaedic Career Planning, Contracts & Compensation

Deconstructing the Orthopaedic Employment Agreement: Anatomy of a Contract & Hidden Red Flags
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ORION
Category: Educational Guides

For graduating residents, fellows, and early-career attendings, receiving a formal physician employment agreement represents the culmination of more than a decade of grueling clinical training. However, signing a multi-year orthopaedic employment contract without dissecting its...
Navigating Orthopaedic Surgery Compensation: A Subspecialty Benchmark Guide
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ORION
Category: Educational Guides

Navigating the transition from surgical training to clinical practice requires translating operative mastery into business acumen. For graduating fellows, senior residents, and early-career attending surgeons, understanding the mechanics of compensation models, benchmark...
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Ashish Gujrathi
Category: Career Planning

Impact of COVID-19 on several industries in context with the surgical equipment industryThe COVID-19 pandemic has affected surgical equipment production and import & export of raw materials and finished goods in various COVID-19-affected countries. The South Asian countries such as India, Bangladesh, and Nepal are facing lockdowns and massive disruptions to...

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Mangesh
Category: Career Planning

Orthopedic Implants Market To Growth Prospect and Future Scenario by Key Players 2025A new market study, titled “Global Orthopedic Implants Market Analysis, Forecast to 2025”, has been featured on Allied Market ResearchThe Orthopedic Implants Market size was valued at $45,901 million in 2017, and is projected to reach $66,636 million by 2025, growing at a CAGR...

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Anthony Williams
Category: Career Planning

Over the past 20 years or so, we’ve observed doctors making numerous mistakes at all stages of their career. We have taken our observations, as well as enlightening discussions with well-established doctors, and compiled this list of critical errors. Our hope in providing...

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Richard Reich
Category: Career Planning

Physicians hold some of the most respected positions in America, with the salaries to prove it. However, in order to become a physician and start practicing, you should be prepared to pay a price. With more than ten years of schooling, resident programs, and surgical training,...

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Editor-in-Chief
Category: Career Planning

Blood-borne Pathogens and the Orthopaedic Surgeon Lynda Loucks, BMR PT, MScPhysiotherapist and ResearcherConcordia Hip and Knee InstituteWinnipeg, MB Eric Bohm, M.D., FRCSCChair, COA National Standards CommitteeWinnipeg, MB Tracy Wilson, MSc, M.D., FRCSCMember, COA National...

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Tracy L. Wilson
Category: Career Planning

Blood-borne Pathogens - Issues in Ontario 2010 Tracy L. Wilson, MSc, M.D., FRCSCThunder Bay, ON Over the past year, much discussion within our medical communities across the country has focused on the issues around blood-borne pathogens (BBP) and mandatory testing thereof....

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Blood-borne Pathogens - A Career Breaker? John BrownJohn Brown InsuranceSpecial to the COA BulletinToronto, ON The College of Physicians and Surgeon Ontario (and other provincial colleges) position on contraction of HIV, HBV or HCV by a physician is very clear: "If a physician...

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Live Long and Prosper: But plan also for retirement Dennis JeanesManager, Communications & AdvocacyCanadian Orthopaedic Association Starting in 2012 - notwithstanding the predations of misfortune, crime and disease - at least 400,000 Canadians will celebrate their 65th...

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