Learning orthopedic surgery - Medical education

If you are interested in orthopedic surgery you should do an ortho residency after med school and follow that with a sports med fellowship. If you are interested in Primary Care, you should do a primary care residency (FP, ER, Peds, IM, etc) after med school and follow that with a primary care sports medicine fellowship. Join the sports med club at your school. Rotate with clinicians that do a lot of sports medicine in their practices. Attend sports medicine conferences and read the sports medicine literature. These are all things that will be helpful to you.

P. Gunnar Brolinson, DO, FAOASM, FAAFP

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Director, Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship

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The U.S. health care system

The US health Care system is a mess.
To begin with, it is too expensive.
The insurance companies have messed it up and they're all fighting for turf and that just makes it worse.
Poor regulation of doctors means that all the good doctors are harmed by doctors that shouldn't have a licence.
That means that litigation pushes up the costs.

If a country like Australia can have a good healthcare system that costs 1/10 of the US system,
that should tell you there is something badly wrong here.

the first thing that should happen is that no more employer-paid healthcare
Regulate the doctors and get rid of the quacks
Treat everyone as an individual or family and lower the insurance costs

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Canadian vs America on health care

Canada health care model | Comparing two countries

A user writes:

I would use Canada and other countries models that provide free healthcare to their citizens...or

If there is way to segregate and consolidate/group up same type policies/holders and average out the premiums among all the policy holders in that category of like policies and that could probably save a lot of money, it would give the Insurance companies the same Total amount what they are already collecting, only difference is everyone in that policy category is paying the same amount, will probably save holders a lot of money? For example all the woman who only have insurance to cover female probs, masectomies, etc.

Families with children under 18....One premium to cover all their kids...all of their children are not going to get sick at the same time, or come down with a disease all together, etc.....Some of the kids might not ever need it.

Plus...

for small business...should just be a category itself...50 employees or less, like a union dues type of situation.....

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Issues with health care can be complex to work out

Issues with health care at a glance

A user writes:

There are several issues with healthcare at a macro level:

1) Costs of overall care is increasing. This is mainly due to utilization.

2) Reimbursement on a RVU/RBRVS basis is decreasing.

3) More people are getting older (baby boomers)

4) There are less care givers now and the trend is toward this worsening.

The answer is that not everyone will get all the care they want over the long term with the current approach to healthcare. Think about this, the system is out of whack. Physicians have implemented ancillary services to make up for their reimbursement deficiencies. AKA, a primary care group puts in a lab. Once done, they order a lot more labwork. As such, we have a cold war, so to speak of cost containment versus utilization.

In order to combat this, you need a force on the other side to contain the costs. In a free market economy, the market would provide this role. We are not in a free market. The patient does not pay the costs directly and this level of indirection has created a dysfunction in the market. If we go to a single payor, then they could provide this containment. This is unlikely due to political constraints.

As such, what is likely to happen is two things. Under the current administration, there is likely to be progress made on insuring the uninsured. While it will be our tax dollars paying for this, the government will feel the burden over time as costs continue to escalate. So, the government will have Medicare, Medicaid and the 40 Million uninsured. So, they will be a great force for containment.

On the private side, businesses are likely to continue to move towards plans that cover more catastrophic problems and will leave a great deal of the rest of the care to the patient as deductibles, coinsurance, out of pocket and copays. The effect of this will be that there will be market forces operating at a retail health level. It is my believe that this will spark a revolution in healthcare in terms of patient centered management. This will reduce costs, improve efficiency and improve outcomes dramatically.

The other very large component of the situation is the resources problem. Without enough care givers, what will happen? There are not a great number of choices.

1) You can get more care givers.

This will not happen quickly in the US. Medical schools are full. How long does it take to start a new medical school and produce care givers? It is a long time. And, this is at time when the dollars a care giver will make are decreasing.

You can bring in care givers from outside the US. This will happen, but this is finite also and the locations where they can come from also have exploding populations.

If we were to think of banks and tellers, what happened? They replaced tellers with ATM’s and made their customers tellers. This could happen with Healthcare in that patients, patient’s families and patient’s friends may very well be called in to serve in some roll.

To support all of this will be technology. NOT EMR. EMR is a disaster waiting to happen, but that is another subject. The technology will be mechanisms to allow remote care, remote monitoring and support to non-care givers.

Lastly, a great consequence of the declining reimbursement and the containment forces will be massive consolidation. Physicians groups will merge and/or be purchased by large organizations, including hospitals. The days of the small groups are numbered. There will be a Big Box approach to healthcare over the long term.

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Elements of a good health plan | Access to affordable health care

Good health plan benefits - 5 properties of a good health program

One user writes:

If I were dictator of North America, my first edict would be to make all
stores and restaurants that sell Coke or Pepsi sell both products. I am
a Pepsi drinker and am angry at stores that only sell one.

Then I would consider some less important topics: first repealing the
federal DOMA law, and then tackling health care.

I would do a survey of all industrialized countries to determine their
citizens' average life expectancy and percent satisfaction by their
public with their health care system. Then I would select one country to
follow. It would probably end up being Canada.

As /Idaho Health Care for All/ states:

The Canadians got it right, providing health care for all Canadians
through the Canada Health Act.

Five principles: public administration, comprehensiveness, universality,
portability and accessibility.

1. *Public administration* avoids the profiteering and thus the
additional 20-30 percent overhead and profit associated with
for-profit insurance companies. As with US Medicare the overhead
for public health insurance is much less�4-5 percent.

2. *Comprehensiveness* means all necessary services are covered.
Unless everything is covered, potential savings are lost if
patients delay preventative care or necessary care as a result of
financial concerns.

3. *Universality* means everyone is covered. Covering everyone allows
allocation of resources based on need of the community rather than
profitability. This kind of allocation of dollars allows for long
range goals and planning improving the health of a neighborhood, a
community, a city, a state, a nation.

4. *Portability* means you can take it with you. US citizens stay in
unwanted jobs just to keep their health insurance. Reduced
productivity of people who hate their jobs can stagnate an
economy. Canadians are free to follow their dreams, because
coverage is guaranteed.

* *

5. *Accessibility* means freedom from economic, geographic and
bureaucratic barriers to health care*. *

http://idahohealthcareforall.org/Information/NewsArticles/tabid/190/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/7/Principles-of-Health-Care-in-Canada.aspx

Of course, as long as there is a money pipeline from the private health
insurance companies into the legislators of your country, reform of the
health care is probably impossible.

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Training to be an orthopaedic surgeon

Here's the information on training to be an orthopaedic surgeon.

First it requires a university degree, covering the required coursework in many areas including biology, chemistry, physics, math. I graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Biological Sciences and History.

Acceptance into medical school is required, which is a competitive process involving good grades, medical and service experience and good MCAT scores. I graduated from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX.

After medical school, exams also have to be passed in order to be granted a medical license to practice in a particular state.

During medical school, students choose which branch of medicine they would like to study, whether it be orthopaedic surgery, radiology, pediatrics, etc. Some fields such as Neurosurgery, Dermatology, Head and Neck surgery and Orthopaedic surgery are more competitive to obtain a training position.

The training in individualized fields is called residency. Some last 3 years, some up to 6. Orthopaedic surgery requires 5 years. I underwent residency training in orthopaedic surgery at the University of California at Irvine Medical Center in southern California.

About 60% of orthopaedic surgery residency program graduates choose to undergo additional specialty training within orthopaedic surgery, in fields such as joint replacement, hand surgery, spine surgery, pediatric orthopaedics, orthopaedic oncology. I choose to specialize in sports medicine and arthroscopic surgery, and I spent a year at the Fowler-Kennedy Clinic at the Unversity of Western Ontario in Canada.

After all training is completed, the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery requires passing both a written and oral examination in orthopaedic surgery. I also chose to sit for an examination in 2007 for a Certificate of Added Qualification in Sports Medicine.

As you can see, it is a long road to pursue a profession in Orthopaedic surgery, but it is important since it is taking care of the health of others.

The best advice I can give you is to study hard, since excellent grades open doors and bad grades close them. Training at the best centers will make a better physician. Also, in every step remember you are serving others and it is most important to put their care first.

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Interview on health care in America | The truth about health care

Health care interview - Health administration officials tell us the unknown truth about the health care industry

Your Question: Maybe you'd share any thoughts you might have on how we could improve the health care system
in America...??

Real Question: Maybe you'd share any thoughts you might have on how we could improve the health in America...??

Granted - there are multiple issues within the system such as poor communication between medical providers and other medical providers, Medical providers and Insurers, Medical providers and insureds, insureds and insurers...could go on forever. Efforts to fix that have always been thwarted by the fear of confidentiality. Imagine how much better the care would be if the Doctors, specialist and pharmacies were all on the same page - but no one wants a national healthcare card.

Drug advertising - Everyone now thinks they need every drug they see on television (never mind the side effects of projectile vomiting or rapid hair growth). I feel awkward at parties so I have "social anxiety disorder" give me a pill, a huge portion of the medications end up unused and in medicine cabinets - that eventually end up in our kids hands and on the street - but that is another issue.

Sometimes the obvious answer stares us in the face and we miss it. Insurance carriers pretty much gave up pre-authorization tactics, step therapy etc., a few years back and said "we are a claims processing center". Claims come in they pay what the state and federal government says has to be covered, what the consumers demand (viagra, mental health parity, no pre-ex) and establish the rates based on all those claims plus the cost of administration (ever seen the government do that cheaply) and a profit that Wall Street and Investors (the same people that want everything covered) expect.

Insurance companies are not making more money, doctors are not making more money - why do the rates keep going up?

Simple: we are in a HEALTH crisis not a Healthcare Crisis. It is UTILIZATION - more and more people using the system as a commodity.

WANT to fix the system

• Get every American to drop the 20-40 extra pounds we are all carrying around.
• Quit thinking a pill will fix the problem (change your eating habits, spending habits, exercise habits)
• Quit smoking and drinking so heavily
• Get the Pharmacy Ads off television - let the professionals (doctors) diagnose and prescribe.

We need a political leader to stand up and say the Prescription for United States is Personal Responsibility. I physically and mentally healthier United States is a more productive more world competitive country.


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Improving health care systems, here's a reply:

Sure Micah, here is my take on the health care system in the U.S....

I see the problem with our health care system being a matter of prioritizing where the government spends its overly-bloated budget. We could cut our military budget in half, stop building an empire, bring our troops home from the 100+ countries where we maintain bases and then use that extra money (estimated at ONE TRILLION annually) to improve our health care system provide care for those that can't afford it themselves.

We should get rid of insurance companies (middle men) and allow practitioners to charge patients directly. The new health care system should be run by the free market, not the government, as the government is horribly inefficient and wasteful in every endeavor it attempts. The current tax system or postal service are a few examples of how well the government runs things.

We should also legalize marijuana and stop prescribing pharmaceuticals for every little ailment.

The incentive system needs to be overhauled so that doctors aren't prescribing uneccessary and highly addictive drugs just to increase their monthly take home pay.

Ending the failed war on drugs would also free up hundreds of millions from the government budget that could go towards health care prevention and education, which would produce a positive ROI by decreasing the number of sick people needing care.

If people learn about nutrition and exercise at a young age and aren't raised on McDonalds and PlayStation, we will have fewer people needing medical care, thus reducing the cost to society and opening up the health care centers and hospitals for those that truly need them.

I realize these changes aren't politically popular and would certainly ruffle the feathers of the pharmaceutical and insurance industries. But it would allow us to improve our health care system and provide care for those in need without increasing taxes or walking further down the road of socialization.

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How to become an orthopedic surgery medical professional

Becoming an orthopedic surgeon

When orthopedic professionals and their staff were asked about their suggestions for becoming an orthopedic surgeon, these were some of their replies:

I would suggest that you read up on anything that is about customer service. Learning about your special areas in medicine is great as you want to be very good at that. But how you interact with patients is just as important. If you do not engage/listen/communicate with patients and understand what their needs are, then you’ve lost them and no matter how good you are in your field, you will not succeed.

And when things do not go right, how to make it right – Service Recovery – is important. Learning what to say and how to say it at the right time is another important piece to know.

Here are some books that might be of help.

Managing patient Expectations – Susan Keane Baker

Hardwiring Excellence – Quint Studer

Making it Right: Healthcare Service Recovery Tools, techniques, and Best Practices – Paul Alexander Clark

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I personally have over 15 years of office/ business management experience, completed a medical school program, and college courses.

I worked directly in surgery, with Surgeons, for over 10 years.

I have also been to quite a few Tradeshows for continued training and education.

I have been directly educated and trained by some of the best German Engineers, Orthopedic & Prosthetic professionals in the field as well.

Obviously, there is always room for continued growth, knowledge & experience.

For yourself, you would need to be more specific in what you are looking into.

You need to ask yourself what is it that you specifically want to do.

I would suggest going to your College Counselor to discuss your career path so they can help you narrow down your ideas.

Do you want Orthopedic Sales, your own website, or your own business?

If you want your own business then a business degree would be most beneficial.

If you want Orthopedic Sales then Medical Degree/experience & sales experience.

Good idea- go on Monster.com look up positions that you are looking for & notice what type of experience they need for that specific job title.

You can also find a local orthopedic company and ask which positions are available.

Ask them what type of education would be needed for that specific job that you are applying for.

There are so many different jobs in the same field.

Every company has different requirements.

Some require education, some require experience, some require both.

It really depends on what & where you want to end up.

Like I said go to a job search website like Monster.com and look through a more specific database to find the specific job titles.

Only you can answer what you are looking for.

If you are serious about Orthopedics check out these websites.

These websites will have job listing available as well with listed requirements.

www.orthosuppliers.com

www.oandpbiznews.com

www.aopanet.org

www.oandp.com

www.biomech.com

Orthopedics???? That is weird! I am a veterinarian post-doctoral pathology fellow in the Comparative and Molecular Pathobiology Department here at Hopkins, I do research in the lab of Dr. Steven Dumler investigating the immunology of Anaplasma phagocytophilum the causative agent of human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA). I also study veterinary pathology and am a board eligible veterinary pathologist. I also do some low cost volunteer spay and neuter stuff on the side (weekends mainly) but that is about it. I graduated from Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2005 with a DVM degree and prior to that from Mount Holyoke College, magna cum laude with a liberal arts bachelors degree (major biology, minor geology).

My fellowship is ending on 07/2009 and I will be employed through the food safety and inspection service (FSIS) as a supervisory regulatory veterinary medical officer in July.


I'm a pharmacist, I attended UC San Francisco.
I had a 1 year residency in general pharmacy practice and that is when I wrote the article.

Become involved in state level organizations (Oregon Ambulatory Surgery Center Asssociation, MGMA, AAOS etc). This is where you will get your most current up to date info on trends etc. By the sounds of it, your going onto becoming a physician, make sure that you are knowledgeable of coding, EMR's (as this is where medicine is going with regards to documentation). Take the occassional weekend seminars to keep your skills updated, attend state and local meetings. Network with people who are currently doing the job that you'd like to be in some day (these contacts become invaluable).

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I’m not sure how helpful I can be, but we have people with a wide range of backgrounds working here. Some on our staff have backgrounds in journalism or literature and manage content, doing editing, etc, while others are very tech-heavy in their experience. I actually have a degree in English and have worked for several internet and digital media-based companies in my career; all my technical skills have been either self-taught or learned on the job. Our director of medical affairs and compliance is a surgeon by training, but also has a degree in computer science. It sounds as if he would be able to give you better information than I can. I will forward your email to him. He does travel a lot and has many commitments, but perhaps he can give you his thoughts if he has a moment.

Physiotherapy is part of the Faculty of Medicine at Universities across Canada. To Study Orthopedics or Physical Therapy, you must complete 4 years of Pre-medical courses BSc and the complete a 2 years Masters degree in Phyiscal Therapy, ..such as University of Toronto, or BC...to specialize in Orthopaedics you have the option of 2 years further at accredited Universities.

Medical schooling is different in different countries!
In India I gained entrance in medical school after my 12th std!
After 5 1/2 years of medical school there is one year of internship and after that 3 years of post graduation!
I did further training and studies in UK to get my second Masters degree.
I also did Medical Law and studied Acupuncture....
Basically medical life is like the endless sea...
one has to study for life!

I would look at colleges around the area that you would like to be in and see if they have a Radiological Technologist program. You will be instructed by the college in what classes you will need to take before entering the program.

I studied both at FIU and FAU; degrees (MS and BS) in biology emphasis on bone mechanics and endocrinology. ACE certified. U.S. Army medic as well; training and Fort Sam Houston Medical training center. I hope this helps.

Just as a suggestion, your education institution guidance counselor and or/ job placement assistance office would be the best source

to help with your request.

You would need to go to college for 4 years, medical school for 4 years, internship and residency for 3 or 4 years more, and in most cases fellowship for another year.

Just as a suggestion, your education institution guidance counselor and or/ job placement assistance office would be the best source

to help with your request.

You would need to go to college for 4 years, medical school for 4 years, internship and residency for 3 or 4 years more, and in most cases fellowship for another year.

I'm a political scientist who writes about legal, regulatory, political and
payment issues in orthopedics. I have very little advice to offer you
regarding your medical education.
I will say, however, that your interest in IT is very important. It's my
opinion that all new medical device innovations are going to have to prove
themselves to be cheaper and better than devices already on the market. IT
will drive the development of these new products in demonstrating their cost
effectiveness.
Best of luck to you. I'm always happy to hear of new and innovative IT
developments that have the possibility of changing the current system of
study designs, clinical trials, safety and effectiveness evidence and
payment strategies used by payers to decide what will be covered and what
won't.

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I am a nurse in a medical device company. I have a special certification in wound, ostomy and incontinence. The practice of wound care (pressure ulcers, venous, arterial and diabetic foot ulcers) is a good area to practice in

I would say my path to this job was a bit unorthodox.

My predecessor had a similar back-ground which helped in my getting hired.

I studied Radio and Television in college which I wouldn’t recommend to anyone now…those business are evolving into something new…..website, on-demand, interactive..

Part of what’s helped me in this role is my “celebrity” in local sports which opens doors, and ability to do many tasks well.

Writing is obviously an important skill.

I attended Butler University here in Indianapolis, but they no longer offer the course of study that I chose about 30 years ago, due to changes in technology.

Journalism, Radio-TV…..

There were no computers when I went to college from 1977-81…so that gives you and idea that much of what I’ve learned has been “on the job’ training.

This will give you an overview of Dr. Pashman's studies.

http://www.espine.com/dr-pashman.htm

IT can start at any level. We have a student that works part time and 2 experienced IT employees.

The medical aspect would be too broad for me to recommend anything without more specifics. We have Medical Assistants which require CPR, preferably certification and always prior ortho experience. Physician Assistants can start right from school depending on the position. Any PA assigned to a physician or in our office PA would need prior ortho and OR experience.

My role is in Public Relations and Marketing for a sports medicine physician practice that includes a full-service line of Orthopedic Surgeons.

My background is in the news media, mainly broadcasting.

So I have numerous local contacts in this area in trying to promote what our physicians do for our patients.

I also have experience with adding content to our website.

I work with a professional PR and Marketing firm in developing and executing strategies for our sponsorships with pro, college and highs school sports teams.

Through my many years covering local sports, it’s a natural fit.

Johns Hopkins University does not offer a specific undergraduate major in orthopedics. A complete list of undergraduate programs that we offer can be found here: http://apply.jhu.edu/academics/majors.html.

Orthopedics is a field of study that someone pursue at the medical graduate level. Our office is not able to assist with questions regarding admissions to medical school. You will need to contact the School of Medicine directly at: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/admissions/

The only possible explanation is that I am one of the few physicians who specialize in the evaluation and management of Post Polio patients. Many of them have orthopedic problems as well as many other problems which are not orthopedic. I have a colleague, a Doctor of Science in physical therapy who is a specialist in the use of orthoses (braces) for post polio survivors.

The bottom line is that I am not an :"orthopedic physician" and we are not doing any surgical intervention in our patients.

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