My Residency Reviews

@ACDF, I encourage you to share your program reviews with the readers of Orthogate. The more reviews and experiences available to future applicants, the better informed they will be in their decision making.

Like I said in my preface post, my experiences and opinions may differ from other applicants. I wrote fairly extensively in my reviews about the limitations of each program. I made a conscious effort to ask multiple residents and rotators about the things they didn't like or wish could be done better. Obviously, some residents and rotators were more candid than others.

I generally kept my written reviews heavy on objective information, because I felt I was more likely to forget those things when I was making my rank list. Feel and overall impressions are much easier to remember, and that is typically what is posted in residency review threads of years past.

I disagree with the previous posting. I am familiar with at least three of the programs (one home program) that you posted about and I think what you wrote is SPOT ON (especially about my home program). Overall, I think you did a great job providing objective info along with some impressions, which are obviously subjective to your experience. I really appreciate these detailed reviews!!

This is the most clutch thread in the history of orthogate. Thanks for taking the time to write all this up!

2nded that the review of my home program seemed pretty accurate and objective, so I'd err on the side that all these reviews have relatively good info.

Hi everyone, congrats on the Match! Excited to call some of you colleagues.

For our reviews, would it be preferred to reply to the other thread, or this one? I wasn't sure if this was just one person's personal reviews or if it was open to all.

I would say to reply to the 2015-16 one. I created my own thread because I had so much material and it was in a different format than the program reviews of years past.