Where to start?

So, I'm definitely gonna be enjoying this last month or so of freedom by ensuring my LFTs are sufficiently elevated and my ass is parked by the pool as much as possible, but once that's over with, where should an ortho intern start tackling the massive amount of information needed to get started down the right road towards orthopaedic competence?

What books did you start with? What strategy did you use? Any advice would be greatly appreciated by all.

pick a review book: either AAOS Comprehensive Review or Millers and just start reading a few pages every night (goal is to finish it once by end of intern year)

Learn the fracture handbook cover to cover if your first year ortho will be spent in a Level 1 trauma center. Supplement learning with Rockwood Fracture Solutions.

do not read miller as an intern.

read a basic fracture text cover to cover by the end of intern year and you ar the man, by the end of pgy2 and you are in good position

do not read miller as an intern.

Review Book = I already know and have read this stuff in a comprehensive text and am not reviewing the key test-able points......

Things often do not make sense until you have seen them clinically and worked through them in your mind......Reading about the version of a hip stem is hard to comprehend until you have hammered a few in....

Fractures make more sense when you reduce them and open them up and stabilize the forces with well thought out fixation constructs...

I would review basic anatomy, and how to handle common orthopaedic problems when you are on call in the ER.....IE.. common fratures....

I think Miller becomes valuable after you have had a basic rotation in the respective topic.......

Or better yet....cut grass and save up money to buy some books...because the polititians can keep their "war-chests" but I am immoral for taking a $200 text book than makes me a better surgeon

Peace..