As an ortho intern in the south who rotated at UTSA and interviewed at Baylor last year I feel that I know both programs fairly well. First Baylor, it is somewhat malignant from the info I got from their students on the interview. Overall though it is a well rounded program, they do get a lot of operative experience. I am not sure what is going on with their chairman situation, I could not get a straight answer. UTSA was totally unimpressive. Although I rotated on Rockwood's service, I saw the man only once in two weeks. The residents do operate a lot, but not until they are upper level residents. On almost every case a chief and a junior are scrubbed, not to mention the medical student and attending, so take it from there. Also, the faculty are not necessarily resident advocates and they tend to lose their temper quite often (to put it mildly). I have heard through the grapevine that they are close to probation. I ranked both schools, but I think I am much happier at my program than I would have been at either of those two programs.
