Working With Athletes in Orthopedics - Rob Westermann, MD Behind the Retractor

Orthopedic surgery is known for being one of the most competitive surgical subspecialties to apply to residency in. Host AJ Chowdhury sits down with Dr. Robert Westermann, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of Iowa, to talk about the match process and whether all orthopods are jocks.

Timestamps:

1:30 What do sports medicine orthopedic surgeons do?

6:45 Do you have to be an athlete to do ortho?

9:05 What sports medicine does in orthopedics

11:53 What makes an orthopedic surgery program strong?

14:35 What Dr. Westermann does in his young adult hip preservation clinic

22:09 Why come back to Iowa after fellowship?

28:21 Work-life balance and self-care in medicine

32:01 Favorite surgery

34:32 Final words of wisdom

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