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  • April 29, 2026 at 3:55 pm #8991
    Ginae Owens
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    Hello everyone,

    I’m reaching out to gather insight on the learning resources being provided across orthopaedic residency programs.

    I would appreciate your input on the following:

    What learning resources do you provide to residents (e.g., textbooks, journals, subscriptions, mobile applications)?
    How are these resources used within your program (e.g., didactic supplement, case preparation, research, board/test prep, assigned reading, etc.)?
    Additionally, we are exploring the possibility of a brief resident survey to better understand which resources are most valuable from the learner perspective. If you would be open to sharing a short survey with your residents, please let me know or feel free to reach out directly at gowens5@uthsc.edu.

    We would be happy to share compiled results with participating programs.

    Thank you in advance for your time and insight.

    Best,
    Ginae Owens

    April 30, 2026 at 4:52 pm #8993
    Kelly Kovacs
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    Hi Ginae,

    We have a specialty specific LibGuide link from the university library that includes access to relevant e-books and journals. Residents and medical students (and faculty for that matter) can all access those resources free.

    The residency program has an Orthobullets PASS account for the residents to use however they want/ prepare for OITE, run through the case-based curriculum, etc. We have just a couple residents on a study plan using Orthobullets; I track their progress once a month to ensure they’re actually doing questions regularly (poor OITE scores gets them on a study plan). The program’s overall percentile was notably higher this past year since we’ve had PASS.

     

    As far as a survey goes… Hopefully you have better luck than we did getting responses. We sent a survey out to programs Fall 2024 asking what resources are used [Orthobullets, Clinical Classroom, ResStudy, UptoDate, AAOS Online, Textbooks, Podcasts, Other]. With 298 views, only 76 total responses received which wasn’t really enough for proper statistical analysis and halted progress on a publication.

     

    In 2022 AOA/COERG published a paper about social media use to supplement ortho education.   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666262022000729

     

     

    -Kelly from Toledo
    kelly.kovacs@utoledo.edu

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