I am a 2nd year at Fort Wayne. Yes we are on probabtion as of july/august 2004. This was for several reasons.
1. Not enough staff involvement in lectures
2. Not enough "big journal" published research (Not really justified based on the amount of clinical spine research that our staff are involved in)
These have been corrected in the case of staff lectures and are being remedied in regards to research. We are set to be rereviewed 4-5 months early. Supposedly sometime in march/april 2005.
About the program. Been around since 1950's. Strong clinical exposure. Close to 50 staff surgeons you have the potential to rotate with. I am on gear to have around 3000 cases by the time i'm a chief. Current chiefs have around 3000 cases. Both chiefs this year have excellent fellowships ( U of kentucky sports medicine and U of utah hand/upper extremity). Our graduates that we have spoken to feel extremely prepared for private practice without a fellowship. We are very comparable as far as community programs to kalamazoo, grand rapids, both akrons, mt carmel, and the san francisco "program". No formal tumor rotation. Our chairman is peds trained. Strongest points are joints and sports (all fellowship trained staff). 40 minutes to Warsaw, IN orthopaedic implant capital of the world which is useful for conferences, reearch, etc. OITE SCORES this year 94 percentile. Last year 92 percentile. We have one day dedicated to education/didactics each week. Our call is 7 per month (6 months in house at busy L2 trauma center, 6 months home call at tertiary nontrauma center). One thing that doesn't change and stinks is that this schedule remains the same all 4 orhopaedic years. Other problem is it's fort wayne. I'm a local boy so i knew what it was like. city population is about 200,000. Catchment area is well over a million from NE, North central Indiana, Southern MI, and NW ohio.
We don't see any problems as far as being reinstated. Actually we are glad that we get more staff lectures now it has greatly improved our didactic education even over the last 4 months that we have changed.
