Status: the top 10 US News institutions.

you guys have got to be smoking crack if you believe that as a "resident" UW gives you good operative experience. they have a myriad of fellows and you will be 3 assist just about into your pgy-4 year. I didn't even apply to UW so I'm not trying to be a gunner and influence someone to rank them lower. lets just be honest about what type a program it is. you go there for the name and the great fellowship place, not necessarily the op experience.

I don't know anything about the other programs.

I think a cooler list would be those so called big name programs that have great operative experiences too. Could anyone list them out?

-Brown
-Campbell Clinic
-Case Western
-CMC
-Duke
-Iowa
-Vanderbilt
-UCSF
-Univ of Michigan
-Univ of Utah
-Univ of Washington

Again, this is all subjective but it is not based on research dollars alone (i.e. US News) and takes into account operative experience, research funding/opportunities, strong reputation within the ortho community, benefits, etc. I'm sure there are others, these are just the ones that come to mind.

This is very similar to the list I came up with for programs that I felt were the most well balanced and offered the best in terms of operative experience.

Brown
Campbell Clinic
CMC
Rochester
Utah

Case Western and Vandy might also belong on this list as well but I did not get to see them personally nor do I know anyone that rotated there, but I have heard good things about both of those programs.