Hi my name is LaNita Green, I am a high school student and I am writing an I-Search Paper For My English Class and if you don't mind I would like to ask you a couple of questions about your job.



What do you do on your job?
How long have you been doing your job?
What did you do to become an orthopedic?
What do you enjoy most about your job?
Did you always want to becoem an orthopedic?

Well... I'm assuming that you're asking an actual orthopaedic surgeon.

I'm not sure how many of us on this forum are orthopaedic surgeons... but since I'm working towards one, I'll try.

Orthopaedic surgeons generally perform surgeries on joints/bone.

I... haven't been doing it at all... so... give me about 4 years.

In order to become an orthopaedic surgeon, one must require a degree from an undergraduate school and a degree from their medical/osteophatic school (either an MD or a DO). Around your third year in med school, you decide to go medical or surgical. Afterwards, you perform your 1-year internship, then your 4-year residency, in which around the third year of your residency, you tend to lean into your specialty.

What do I enjoy... again, not there yet. However, I did want to become an orthopaedic surgeon simply because of their method of surgery. Some call it the "jock specialty" because compared to surgeries such as neurosurgery, it requires less meticulous attention to detail, but this is just a joke that's played around among surgeons.

I believe I was 12 years old when I told my parents that I wanted to become an orthopaedic surgeon... and my parents thought I was nuts. However, I'm a senior in college, and I have 4 more years to go!

Hope I answered some of your questions... and hopefully an actual orthopaedic surgeon will come along and give you more details.

Best wishes.

I'm not a surgon but I found some stuff on a website that gives all the fun filled facts... Become An Orthopedic Surgeon (http://orthopedics.about.com/cs/sportsmedicine/ht/orthopedic.htm)

It has what classes you should take, the estimate on how long each section such as medical school, internship, residency, and finally fellowship should take, plus it has a few more links I didn't click on that looked like they might help.

Good luck with the assignment!