Quality of training in orthopaedic residency

I am planing to continue training in the US beeing half time in my residency in Europe. I aim to evaluate the quality of training in the US, to see if it is reasonable to try. Could you please inform me, how many cuts (operations: hip/knee replacements, arthroscopies, ACL- reconstructions, foot, shoulder operations) do you carry out yourselves on average a month with or without the assistance of a senior surgeon?
Would be great help if you also stated which year you did them.
Thank you in advance!
Forest

there is not a good answer for you b/c the amount of time as primary surgeon or first assist varies b/t programs greatly. The average is 1200 or so I believe. Some programs break 2000. It is also hard to tell from raw numbers b/c you dont know the types/variety of cases.
Unfortunatly the odds are against you getting a US residency spots if you are a foreign grad, even one that is already in a ortho residency

there is not a good answer for you b/c the amount of time as primary surgeon or first assist varies b/t programs greatly. The average is 1200 or so I believe. Some programs break 2000. It is also hard to tell from raw numbers b/c you dont know the types/variety of cases.
Unfortunatly the odds are against you getting a US residency spots if you are a foreign grad, even one that is already in a ortho residency

Thanks for answering. Do you mean the numbers 1200-2000 for 5 years?
Do you think a PhD does help getting an ortho residency?
Forest

yea, for the entire residency
A PhD would not hurt, but if you look at the thread in the ortho residency forum called "charting outcomes in the match" you will see that there are more US grads than ortho residency spots. Some places may look at your application, but most will use your status as a "foreign grad" to sort you out in the initial filtering process. We have two spots a year and get over 300 applications