Orthobullets

Orthobullets is an educational resource for orthopaedic surgeons designed to improve through the communal efforts of those who use it as a learning resource. It is a simple but powerful concept. Orthobullets is built on the following core beliefs: Orthopaedic education can be improved and made more efficient. With proper incentives and guidance, young orthopaedic surgeons can and will produce high- quality orthopaedic review content to the benefit of themselves and their peers. Physicians should be rewarded fairly for their publishing contribution. Orthobullets was founded by Dr. Derek Moore, a practicing orthopedic spine surgeon. He realized after returning to his residency following a period as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group, that there were opportunities for improvement in the orthopaedic surgery training process. Opportunities to create value include: We at Orthobullets believe that residents represent an underutilized "talent pool." The rigorous selection process of orthopaedic residency selects for some of the brightest young professionals in our country during their prime productive years. Unfortunately, the daily workload that residents face often limits them from more valuable activities such as research, social service, and international medical work. We believe with proper incentives and infrastructure, resident physicians can be more productive during their residency as well as have a more fulfilling experience. Premedical and medical education prior to residency is based on a structured curriculum with specific course materials and interval testing to track the progress of individual students and objectively compare them to the performance of others. Many orthopaedic training programs lack such a structured curriculum and the only objective measure of a residents progress is the annual in training exam. We believe by implementing a structured curriculum with objective interval testing, the accumulation of knowledge can be done more efficiently, leaving residents with more time to ...