[Erica Fry]

Dear ARCOS Board of Directors,

Thank you very much for sending the dates of the 2025 annual conference. I’m looking forward to the meeting and the expanded collaboration with CORD. Are coordinators welcome/encouraged to attend both days of the CORD meeting? This will help determine travel dates (i.e. checkout on Thursday or Friday from the hotel). Thanks again for your efforts.

Best regards,

Erica Fry

 

[Erica Fry]

This position has been filled.

[Erica Fry]

Good morning!

This was the first year that the University of Wisconsin program administered the exam remotely. We started on on Saturday 11/4 at 8:00 am and the last trainee completed their exam at 5:15 pm. The feedback from the residents that took the test on 11/4 uniformly said that this was the worst texting experience of their lives. Every single resident had constant lag between questions. The initial work around was to close their browsers numerous times, clear the cache and reopen the exam (required taking a photo, providing ID and a system check). This was  a painfully slow process and the interruptions were very frustrating for the residents.

Later in the day coordinators/managers learned that residents could press F5 (PC) or Command +R (Mac) to refresh the testing browser to stop the lag. This improved the afternoon experience, but all residents still had to close the browser at least once during part two of the exam. I can’t imagine that the residents were able to provide peak test performance with such a suboptimal test delivery experience.

Below is a screenshot of the updates provided by AAOS and the testing vendor about the issue.

Going forward, I hope no other residents are subjected to such poor test delivery experiences. The OITE is stressful enough without these technical difficulties. Our main test date is next Saturday. I hope the experience is nothing like this weekend.

I hope the info will help all involved. Good luck!

Erica

[Erica Fry]

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison all residents are required to maintain BLS throughout training. Each program may add other life saving requirements. The Ortho PGY-1’s are required to complete ATLS as part of orientation, but not required to renew. This is required because they rotate with General Surgery Trauma and Emergency Medicine at our Trauma Level 1 hospital.

The Ortho fellows are only required to maintain BLS certification.

Best,

Erica

[Erica Fry]

University of Wisconsin will be doing all (residency/fellowship) interviews virtually as mandated by our GME office.

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