2. In order to meet these goals the PGY-1 year must include

a. a minimum of six months of structured education in surgery, to
include multi-system trauma, plastic surgery/burn care, intensive
care, and vascular surgery;

As an intern you need to do six months of gen surg, and out of those six you MUST DO trauma, plastics/burn, ICU, and vascular. It doen't matter what the other two months are, as long as they are in gen surg.

b. a minimum of one month of structured education in at least three
of the following: emergency medicine, medical/cardiac intensive
care, internal medicine, neurology, neurological surgery, pediatric
surgery or pediatrics, rheumatology, anesthesiology,
musculoskeletal imaging, and rehabilitation; and

You HAVE TO do any three out of that list rotations, but not all of them. So if I do Rheum, Rehab, and Neurosurg, I am set in this category.
c. a maximum of three months of orthopaedic surgery.

Don't do more than 3 months of ortho as an intern. You CAN do less.

So, say my intern year looks like:

Ortho
Ortho
Ortho
Trauma
Rehab
Neurosug
Vasc
Plas
ICU
Rheum
Vacation
Anes

I meet the requirements. Prelims rarely get more than a month of ortho, but you don't need 3 months as I stated above. This gives you more flexibility in scheduling, since as a prelim you are a lock to get the garbage rotations that the categorical surgery residents don't want **cough transplant cough**.
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