Securing Your Financial Future: The Importance of Occupation-specific, Long-term Disability Insurance for Orthopaedic Surgery Residents and Fellows

Michael DeRogatis, MD, MS; Rey Calvello

Protecting income with an occupation-specific, long-term disability insurance (OSDI) policy is one of the first financial decisions an early-career orthopaedic surgeon should make.

Wide-awake, Office-based Orthopaedic Surgery Creates Challenges in Resident Education

Shafic Sraj, MD, FAAOS; Jason Kinney, MD; John Taras, MD, FAAOS

It can be difficult to keep the patient from hearing residents’ and attendings’ conversations during Office-based orthopaedic surgery. This situation creates a potential conflict between instructing residents using traditional methods and avoiding a patient’s perception of being a “training subject.”