Revisiting Differences in Fourth-Year Orthopaedic Away Rotation Opportunities and Fees Among Allopathic and Osteopathic Medical Students.

Introduction: Fourth-year away rotations are an important modifiable variable proven to increase students' opportunities to match into orthopaedic surgery. The purpose of this study was to determine differences in away rotation eligibility requirements and cost of rotation between allopathic and osteopathic students during the 2023 application cycle. Eligibility requirements and fees were then compared with the 2021 application cycle.

Academic Degree Bias Among Speaking and Leadership Roles at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meetings, 2016-2021.

This study examined the proportion of Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine (DOs) across various speaking and leadership roles at recent American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) annual meetings.  Design: Meeting programs from the AAOS were publicly accessed and compiled between 2016 and 2021. Two categories of AAOS meeting participants were created.