avg surgical exp. in us

wow,
my hospital has 280 trauma-beds, 12 attendings, 6 ortho-ORs and 24 residents. We have about 6000 surgical cases per year.
if only residents would operate, 6000/24 residents would be 250. but at least in my hospital, attendings do acetabular#, spine with neurology an athroplasty-revision on their own. so there are maybe 4500 cases for all residents left.
you must work in a gigantic trauma-center if a resident can do 1000 cases per year.

Just finished residency, my case log for 4 years (did not count intern year)

2748 cases, even more proceedure codes, many of those cases were multi-extremity cases.

I DID NOT log near everything, like traction pins, all reductions, lots of I+D's. Particularly my 6 months of peds in the summer, when I had usually 5-7 and upwards of 15 reductions a night at times, every 4th night.

We were VERY busy. As chiefs, we operated every day of the week during the normal work week, 3-6 cases a day 5 days a week, not including call. Trauma work intermingled with private elective cases, the best of both worlds. Often independently, running our own rooms with attending oversight. Very limited clinic. Our program could use more residents.

Every place is different, and I do not think you can compare just numbers. Some places you are not doing a lot of operating because of the fellows or the attending you are working with. Some places you are operating independently as a second year due to lack of attending coverage. While this may seem good and fun, having some direction is beneficial.

Over PGY II and III, not counting non-operative cases in the OR, logged more than 1,100 operative cases (counting only first-assist cases). This, of course, being limited by junior post-call days off. As a PGY IV, averaging between 60 and 80 cases/month (depending upon vacations, holidays, and general waxes and wanes of operative cases), equates to between 500 and 1000 cases/year.

Around 2300-2400 total cases by end of residency (including call cases during a research year). But most of us do a pretty lousy job of recording everything

Iam From Denmark

We do about 100 operation the 1. year (as trainee ) and 200 or a bit more the next years... giving about 1000 operation before you become specialized.... or more.

but how many orif is there in 2500 procedures?
And i have done about 300 spinal injections. would that count as procedure in the us?