Nailed It Ortho

Nailed It Ortho is a broad orthopedic surgery teaching podcast that keeps returning to one core question: what should a clinician recognize, remember, or do differently next time? The show is brisk and practical. Its Monday Missteps episodes use missed or nearly missed injuries as teaching cases, with clear attention to pediatric elbow trauma, ankle fractures, exam findings, imaging choices, and the small details that change management. A child who will not extend an elbow becomes a lesson in supracondylar humerus fractures. A seemingly simple distal fibula fracture becomes a reason to think about gravity stress views, medial clear space, and deep deltoid ligament rupture. The clinical episodes often build layered explanations: mechanism first, physical exam next, imaging signs after that, then a recap of what not to miss. That structure makes dense orthopedic material easier to carry into clinic, call, or board review. The show also has a strong exam-prep thread, including OITE, ABOS Part 1, and citation-based review. Shoulder and elbow Citation Classics episodes work through articles, biomechanics, throwing-athlete injury patterns, UCL stress, labral injury, rotator cuff strain, fatigue, and overuse. Nailed It Ortho is not only clinical. Its OrthoBiz lane handles the business side of surgery, including ambulatory surgery centers, certificates of need, LLCs, S-corps, trademark law, side work, independent medical exams, and expert witness opportunities. Those episodes are especially useful because they name the kinds of practice questions that often sit outside formal training. The interviews stay conversational, with quick acknowledgments, follow-up questions, and enough repetition to keep complex material from becoming opaque. The style is warm without becoming soft. It can be casual, but the goal is clearly utility. The show is best for medical students, residents, fellows, early attendings, and practicing orthopedic clinicians who want reminders that are testable, clinically useful, and connected to real professional life. Its range is the appeal. One feed can help with a board-style concept, a fracture-pattern miss, a shoulder and elbow article, and a surgeon business question.