Career Enhancing Experiences
Editor’s Note: The wisdom described here has led to a satisfying career. I was invited to interview at an orthopedic residency program I was very interested in. I sat across the desk from the chairman who had recently been the president of the AAOS. He was known to be...
Career Enhancing Experiences
Editor’s Note: The path to becoming an orthopaedic surgeon can be circuitous. This story is similar in many ways to that experienced by Dr. Ruth Jackson, the first Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon, who was told “no” at many points during her education and career....
Career Enhancing Experiences
Editor’s Note: An adverse occurrence during early career development at an academic medical center. Through the experience I gained as an adolescent working in my mother’s internal medicine office, I developed a sense of how medical practices are run. This was...
