Why Orthopaedics? Why medicine? Why not ship broking? Private equity? Surely the questions every orthopaedic trainee asks themselves at some point - especially if they're based in the capital. Especially when their bosses tell them there are no jobs. Especially when the ST3 cohort doubles.In Phnom Penh, there is a centre well known to those who ply their trade on the humanitarian orthopaedic circuit. Children's Surgical Centre is at times a brilliant place, at times a terrifying unit, and at times an unparallelled educational facility. Many orthopaedic trainees have been through it, either as junior trainees interested in limb reconstruction, or as fellows developing frame experience. I went as someone frustrated by two years of foundation programme, and came back with renewed vigour and zeal for training.
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