Temple is an excellent program where you leave comfortable doing almost any basic procedure that a private orthopod needs. The grads get good fellowships. last years guys went to harvard for hand, two to cali for spine and one to private practice i think. the program is very trauma heavy but you see everything. they take four residents a year. in house call until the middle of 3 year. you spend a while at an outside private hospital like 10-15 min away where you do a ton of joints and spine. one of the current residents is gonna be faculty over there and its a great learning place. you also work with drexel residents over there which is a nice interaction. you do peds at temple childrens and shriners. shriners is an awesome pace where the attendings are great and really like to teach and let you operate a ton. there is one trauma fellow but he doesnt get in the way at all and this year he is actually a really good teacher so its nice to have him around. the program definitely gets you operating early and youll be perfectly comfortable nailing a femur at three in the morning by the middle of 2 year. interns do three months of ortho which is a lot of ER and floor work but they always have back up if they need it. didactics every morning taught by the chiefs mon-thurs and an attending on fri but there is an attending there every day to fill in the gaps and answer questions. the didactics are based on a reading he juniors are responsible for he night before. you get a lot of teaching experience cause there are almost always 3rd and 4th year med students on the service and sometimes podiatry students too.
sorry this was so rambled, im pretty hung over right now
good luck to all and happy holidays. see you on the trail
