I am a current senior resident at LSUHSC - Shreveport. Our program was taken off of probation this year and we are currently a fully accredited orthopaedic surgery program. We are accredited to take 3 residents per year and our next site visit is in 2015. Since being on probation plenty has changed in our institution as well as our residency program:
1)New Chancellor
2)New Chairman/Program Director
3)2 new Trauma staff
4)Tumor staff
5)A new Total Joint Staff will begin in the next 6 months
Program at a glance:
Location: Shreveport
-Low cost of living...most residents own a house
-Easy commute to work...>15min drive is rare
-lots of festivals
-Great outdoors...lots of residents like to fish, hunt
-Weather is great
Residency:
-Level 1 trauma center
-Lots of autonomy
-Never more than two residents scrubbed...most time just one
-Charity Hospital Rotations: Trauma, Sports, Hand, Foot and ankle, Tumor, Spine
-Rotations at the private hospital: Hand, Sports, Joints
-VA: Hand, Sports, Joints, General
-Shriners: Pediatrics (recently hired an additional staff)
-Residents are a tight knit group
-Staff is very approachable
-State of the art bio skills lab
-At least 2 courses a year paid for
-Resident get their top choices for fellowships
Plenty has changed for the better over the past few years here and our program continues to improve.
