North Of The Border---October 1, 2006
Well, apparently MSN Virtual Earth no longer exists. I have removed the links of my collections from the blog for now. Hopefully, we can return to them some day.
I just got back from Pittsburgh today. What a great trip. All my pictures are below.
When we got to Pittsburgh on Thursday evening, we went straight to the Western Pennsylvania Hospital for about 3 hours of lecture. The theme was foot and ankle trauma.
On Friday morning, we had a lab on internal fixation taught by Jordan Grossman. Dr. Grossman is a graduate of the West Penn residency and is the current residency director of the St. Vincent's Charity Hospital podiatric surgical residency in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a podiatrist and is an internationally recoginized expert in the field of foot and ankle trauma surgery. We also had a tour of the hospital. It is about the size of St. John's. The rest of the day, we met with the current residents who taught us about the residency program. I am very sure this hospital provides excellent training. They said one of the attendings can perform an Austin bunionectomy in 11 minutes! This is usally about at 30-35 minute surgery. Very impressive! Saturday night they took us to dinner at a "fancy smancy" restuarant called The Grand Concourse. It is the old railroad deport and was very ornate. The food was wonderful. I had the grilled tuna and a blackberry iced tea.
On Saturday, we had case discussions, a radiology workshop, and a suturing workshop taught by the residents. We practiced our suturing on pig's feet from the butcher shop. In the afternoon, be had a lecture on deformity correction. Saturday night, they took us to a place called "Dave and Buster's". It is sort of a sports bar with tons of pool tables and video games. We had a buffet of appetizers and finger foods. I call it a grown up Chuck E. Cheese.
Overall, I think this is a great residency. I was invited back for an upcoming lecture series in November and was strongly encouraged by the residency director to do a month long rotation there. They offered to provide housing and meals during this time. I will definately take this into consideration. They sure treated us like royalty. I had a very nice time. About 15 students from 8 different podiatry schools attended.
Here are some relevant web addresses if you are interested
https://www.asri.edu/wph/index.html
https://www.asri.edu/wph/education/wph/graduate/wph_podiatry.html
Cheryl and the kids went down to Missouri this past weekend for the annual hayride and bondfire hosted by her parents. They had a great time, too.
Oh, by the way, check out some of my more profound philosophies at the address below.
http://www.dmu.edu/profiles/index.cfm?StudentProfileID=84
Well, it's back to reality tomorrow so I am turning in for the night.
I just got back from Pittsburgh today. What a great trip. All my pictures are below.
When we got to Pittsburgh on Thursday evening, we went straight to the Western Pennsylvania Hospital for about 3 hours of lecture. The theme was foot and ankle trauma.
On Friday morning, we had a lab on internal fixation taught by Jordan Grossman. Dr. Grossman is a graduate of the West Penn residency and is the current residency director of the St. Vincent's Charity Hospital podiatric surgical residency in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a podiatrist and is an internationally recoginized expert in the field of foot and ankle trauma surgery. We also had a tour of the hospital. It is about the size of St. John's. The rest of the day, we met with the current residents who taught us about the residency program. I am very sure this hospital provides excellent training. They said one of the attendings can perform an Austin bunionectomy in 11 minutes! This is usally about at 30-35 minute surgery. Very impressive! Saturday night they took us to dinner at a "fancy smancy" restuarant called The Grand Concourse. It is the old railroad deport and was very ornate. The food was wonderful. I had the grilled tuna and a blackberry iced tea.
On Saturday, we had case discussions, a radiology workshop, and a suturing workshop taught by the residents. We practiced our suturing on pig's feet from the butcher shop. In the afternoon, be had a lecture on deformity correction. Saturday night, they took us to a place called "Dave and Buster's". It is sort of a sports bar with tons of pool tables and video games. We had a buffet of appetizers and finger foods. I call it a grown up Chuck E. Cheese.
Overall, I think this is a great residency. I was invited back for an upcoming lecture series in November and was strongly encouraged by the residency director to do a month long rotation there. They offered to provide housing and meals during this time. I will definately take this into consideration. They sure treated us like royalty. I had a very nice time. About 15 students from 8 different podiatry schools attended.
Here are some relevant web addresses if you are interested
https://www.asri.edu/wph/index.html
https://www.asri.edu/wph/education/wph/graduate/wph_podiatry.html
Cheryl and the kids went down to Missouri this past weekend for the annual hayride and bondfire hosted by her parents. They had a great time, too.
Oh, by the way, check out some of my more profound philosophies at the address below.
http://www.dmu.edu/profiles/index.cfm?StudentProfileID=84
Well, it's back to reality tomorrow so I am turning in for the night.
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