Max Traction
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Last minute concerns. Can anyone tell me more about these programs. I am not from the region and it is hard to know what to believe.
orthohopeful
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(2/20/02 10:50:33 pm)
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UT Houston: great hospitals, good attendings, well respected chair who is considered to be an up and comer in academic ortho. Trauma is heavy for only 3 residents per year, but overall average to happy lifestyle to hear the residents tell it. Baylor people will tell you they lose out on operative experience because they don't have Ben Taub, but not going to that h$%&hole is a blessing in my book. Shriners for pedi (with built in moonlighting there if you want it), MD Anderson for tumor, all the supspecialties covered. Very solid program if you like Houston. I would rank it very high if Houston fit into mine and my family's desires more. On interview day I thought the residents were extremely cool.
UTMB: light trauma, excellent lifestyle, good teaching, good pedi experience, also a good chair who cares deeply for the training program, tons of elective ortho from the prison. I don't know about spine or hand but other subs are well covered. I think its a great place to go and get solid clinical training without killing yourself for five years. Not a big academic name and Galveston is a miserable place to live if you ask me.
Hope that helps.
I didn't rotate at either, but interviewed at both and have talked with people that rotated at both.
Good luck.
longhorn orthopod
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(2/21/02 2:26:24 pm)
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i agree with the above, houston is a great program that i think in the next 5 years will really excel, dr. clanton is by far one of the nicest chairmen i've met and really is moving the program upwards, he knows tons of people in the ortho community and just got named head doc for the Houston Texans, if you care about that stuff, the residents are cool and well respected around texas, would be a great place to train, i've seen the 5th years operate and they know what they're doing
galveston- not as well respected around texas, the call schedule is q 8, which makes for a good lifestyle (if there is life in Galveston) but not so good op experience
good luck and hope i've been helpful
heelbonedoc
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(2/22/02 2:55:35 pm)
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just to clarify about ut-galveston... galveston gets a bad rap as a place to live, especially if you are single. here are the pro's: good restaurants/seafood, great fishing, ok beach, awesome recreation for boat-owners, no traffic, affordable housing (my wife and i bought a house 2 blocks from the hosp in a nice neighborhood--i have a 5 min walk to work), very nice gym/pool for residents/employees, great place to raise a family, good support for ortho-spouses in the form of the resitern group, all the amenities of houston are only 45min away.
about the program... great operative experience, starting as a pgy-2. one pgy-2 has done 8 ACL's as primary surgeon. another has done about the same number of total joints as the primary surgeon. how? the TDC prison service. it's one of the reasons i'm here. we take an oncology course with residents from southeast texas programs, and it seems that our operative experience and quality of lifestyle exceeds theirs. q8 call and every other weekend off is nice, although we do work hard during the week, operating and in clinic. we get enough trauma to be proficient, but we're certainly not overwhelmed. most nights on call, you are up and usually operating. spine... probably our weak area, although we have 2 spine surgeons, and possibly a third on the way. great lab facilities and enough time/support to do as much/little research as desired. 80% residents married, many with children. good group of residents. no malignant faculty.
just trying to get the word out about a program worth looking at...
UT-Galveston Resident
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(2/20/02 5:53:36 pm)
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Last minute concerns. Can anyone tell me more about these programs. I am not from the region and it is hard to know what to believe.
orthohopeful
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(2/20/02 10:50:33 pm)
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UT Houston: great hospitals, good attendings, well respected chair who is considered to be an up and comer in academic ortho. Trauma is heavy for only 3 residents per year, but overall average to happy lifestyle to hear the residents tell it. Baylor people will tell you they lose out on operative experience because they don't have Ben Taub, but not going to that h$%&hole is a blessing in my book. Shriners for pedi (with built in moonlighting there if you want it), MD Anderson for tumor, all the supspecialties covered. Very solid program if you like Houston. I would rank it very high if Houston fit into mine and my family's desires more. On interview day I thought the residents were extremely cool.
UTMB: light trauma, excellent lifestyle, good teaching, good pedi experience, also a good chair who cares deeply for the training program, tons of elective ortho from the prison. I don't know about spine or hand but other subs are well covered. I think its a great place to go and get solid clinical training without killing yourself for five years. Not a big academic name and Galveston is a miserable place to live if you ask me.
Hope that helps.
I didn't rotate at either, but interviewed at both and have talked with people that rotated at both.
Good luck.
longhorn orthopod
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Posts: 5
(2/21/02 2:26:24 pm)
143.111.12.233
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i agree with the above, houston is a great program that i think in the next 5 years will really excel, dr. clanton is by far one of the nicest chairmen i've met and really is moving the program upwards, he knows tons of people in the ortho community and just got named head doc for the Houston Texans, if you care about that stuff, the residents are cool and well respected around texas, would be a great place to train, i've seen the 5th years operate and they know what they're doing
galveston- not as well respected around texas, the call schedule is q 8, which makes for a good lifestyle (if there is life in Galveston) but not so good op experience
good luck and hope i've been helpful
heelbonedoc
OSRR Newbie
Posts: 4
(2/22/02 2:55:35 pm)
129.109.166.146
Reply | Edit | Del Re: ut-houston and galveston
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just to clarify about ut-galveston... galveston gets a bad rap as a place to live, especially if you are single. here are the pro's: good restaurants/seafood, great fishing, ok beach, awesome recreation for boat-owners, no traffic, affordable housing (my wife and i bought a house 2 blocks from the hosp in a nice neighborhood--i have a 5 min walk to work), very nice gym/pool for residents/employees, great place to raise a family, good support for ortho-spouses in the form of the resitern group, all the amenities of houston are only 45min away.
about the program... great operative experience, starting as a pgy-2. one pgy-2 has done 8 ACL's as primary surgeon. another has done about the same number of total joints as the primary surgeon. how? the TDC prison service. it's one of the reasons i'm here. we take an oncology course with residents from southeast texas programs, and it seems that our operative experience and quality of lifestyle exceeds theirs. q8 call and every other weekend off is nice, although we do work hard during the week, operating and in clinic. we get enough trauma to be proficient, but we're certainly not overwhelmed. most nights on call, you are up and usually operating. spine... probably our weak area, although we have 2 spine surgeons, and possibly a third on the way. great lab facilities and enough time/support to do as much/little research as desired. 80% residents married, many with children. good group of residents. no malignant faculty.
just trying to get the word out about a program worth looking at...
UT-Galveston Resident