What is the best "Team" to go on

$fracturenurse$ · Feb 14, 2009

I vote for ortho, but, I've been doing it for years.....I love it. Just make sure that whatever you decide, you enjoy it...

Good Luck!

linda2097 · Feb 14, 2009

If you can, it's better to learn all services instead of just one. You are most marketable if you can do every case.

core0 · Feb 14, 2009

I just got into a OR training program at LAC +USC medical center. I think it's pretty great becuase there are 25 OR rooms:D. I was wondering what is the best team to try and get on i.e open heart, general, ortho, eye, peds. What will be the most marketable:twocents: , fullfilling and further my career. Thanks a bunch and wish me luck!

Transplant but I'm biased:D.

Seriously its like doing trauma, general surgery and vascular surgery all at once. Or as one of our fellows stated: like juggling flaming chain saws while riding an office chair down a flight of chairs.

David Carpenter, PA-C

MsLeylaBar · Feb 14, 2009

I think it is best if you go through all service rotations, which I know you will, and decide which one suits you best. Which service you enjoy the most, which surgeons you like working with, a service that makes you think at the end of the day...hmmm I wouldn't mind mind doing this over and over again.

I am doing Neurosurgery most of the time...the brain is fascinating to me...haha others might think it's so boring but really the neurosurgeons that I work with are awesome and fun to work with.

I also love Ortho, but at my current work place, the Ortho surgeons are so boring and not fun to work with at all.

I also love transplants, it is very fulfilling, I even go check post op patients in ICU just to see how they are doing. Seeing a liver transplant patient so sick before surgery and then a week post op is like seeing two different individuals.

I wish you luck with your training and just enjoy learning...

brewerpaul · Feb 17, 2009

I agree that you should try to train in as many areas as you can. We have a small OR, so we all do everything (we don't do open heart,major trauma)

If you can only do one, general might give you the most variety and should be pretty marketable, since just about any OR will do general cases.

gnom · Feb 18, 2009

I assume that you are done with rotations through all the services? I would suggest ortho or cv....anybody can do general or pastics....forget about eye.....CV cases, as you know long as hell....they usually don't play any music and keep the room cold....In ortho a lot depends on the surgeon. Our ortho team is consist of 3 teams actualy - joints, spine and trauma. Joints are easy.....the same thing all the time....In trauma you have to think like a surgeon, anticipate needs and be quick and resourceful! Also a lot of heavy trays - sometimes up to 30 in complex trauma cases. In LA they do pelvises so be ready for those 30 trays!

Hope it heps