Show Pediatric Orthopaedics programs the clinician behind your application

Question practice

Questions drawn from the realities of Pediatric Orthopaedics

Practise explaining the clinical decisions, patient conversations and career experiences that matter in Pediatric Orthopaedics—then handle follow-ups that ask for evidence behind your first answer.

1. 01

   How do your personal values align with the ethos of pediatric orthopaedics, which often involves advocating for vulnerable patients?

2. 02

   A child in clinic has progressive idiopathic scoliosis; when do you consider bracing, and what criteria would lead you to recommend surgical intervention?

3. 03

   You are consulting on a pediatric trauma case in the emergency department, and the ED physician is insistent on an immediate transfer despite the child being unstable; how do you handle this disagreement?

4. 04

   A desperate parent requests an experimental, unproven surgery for their child's severe musculoskeletal condition; how do you ethically counsel them?

5. 05

   If you were to design a quality improvement project for our pediatric orthopaedic clinic, what specific area would you target and what metrics would you use to measure success?

6. 06

   What aspects of our program's multidisciplinary clinics, such as the spina bifida or cerebral palsy clinics, appeal to you and why?