Career Enhancing Experiences
Editor’s Note: This is an honest account of how difficult it can be to navigate the unknown territory of training and early career. “I look at life as a maze. Someone at each corner points to the next direction to go. Each was one of ‘my angels’.” There were many...
Career Enhancing Experiences
Editor’s Note: This is an insightful description of the ingredients necessary to build an orthopaedic surgeon. It also describes the beauty inherent in the craft. I had been educated in the arts and had the manual dexterity of an artist, yet I did not see art as a...
Career Enhancing Experiences
Editor’s Note: This account underscores that positive relationships built at all levels can lead to career-related rewards. Early in my career, a residency colleague of mine asked me to participate with him in teaching at a respected location. I, of course, accepted...
Career Enhancing Experiences
Editor’s Note: An explanation of the important distinction between mentoring and sponsorship. I was the first female fellow in a prominent institution’s well-respected program and was one of two fellows. Just prior to the year beginning, another male fellow was added....
Career Enhancing Experiences
Editor’s Note: Here is an enlightened approach to improving the lives of a specific subset of orthopaedic patients. In the spirit of keeping this account relatively anonymous, many descriptive facts have been deleted. I trained in and practiced a “different”...
Career Enhancing Experiences
Editor’s Note: Wonderful examples of reaching out to young women to promote careers in orthopedic surgery. Over two decades ago, while in private practice, I was invited to join a panel of three “strong women” for the benefit of a group of medical students. The...
