Impact of a weekly reading program on orthopedic surgery residents' in-training examination.

In response to a decline in individual residents' performance and overall program performance on the Orthopaedic In-Training Examination (OITE), the authors' department initiated a daily literature reading program coupled with weekly tests on the assigned material. The goal of this study was to assess the effect of the reading program on individual residents' scores and the training program's OITE scores. The reading program consisted of daily review articles from the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, followed by a weekly written examination consisting of multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank questions.

Allograft Reconstruction of the Lisfranc Ligament.

Unlabelled: For Lisfranc injuries, screw fixation of the medial and middle columns is currently the standard of treatment. The purpose of this study was to biomechanically evaluate the use of allograft for a severed Lisfranc ligament compared to standard screw fixation and the intact condition. Six pairs of fresh-frozen cadaveric lower extremities were prepared with reflective marker arrays and cyclically loaded to simulate partial weight bearing under 4 sequential testing conditions: (1) intact ligament, (2) disrupted ligament, (3) tendon allograft reconstructed ligament, and (4) rigid screw fixation.