Austin Nguyen, MD

03/10/2025

Thank you for reaching out to share my story and highlight the journey that led to starting and my involvement with . It’s been incredible to build platforms that help pre-med and medical students across the country. Excited to continue pushing forward in medical education and innovation!

Grateful for my co-founder at Medical School Partners LLC and our amazing SnapOrtho team, led by — none of this would be possible without you. And of course, thank you to my wife Kristen and my family for always supporting me in everything!

🔗 Full article:

https://voyagehouston.com/interview/inspiring-conversations-with-austin-nguyen-of-medical-school-partners-llc/

23/08/2025

🚀 Big Milestone for SnapOrtho! 🚀

We’re excited to share that SnapOrtho has officially passed 1,000 downloads! 🎉

SnapOrtho was built to give medical students and residents earlier, easier, and more engaging exposure to orthopedics.

Our platform includes:
• 📸 Guides on how to read X-rays
• 🔁 Spaced repetition practice to boost retention
• 📚 Built-in orthopedic classifications
• 🎥 Learn videos using memory palaces + sketches to simplify tough concepts (open fractures, distal radius fractures, intertrochanteric femur fractures … and more coming!)
• 🤖 BroBot Ortho – our AI chatbot designed to help with case prep and learning on the go

🌟 New Resource for Applicants: With ERAS season here, we’ve also launched a free “Path to Ortho” guide on our website, featuring:
• ✅ An interactive application checklist
• ❓ FAQs answered
• 📝 Advice on LORs, away rotations, program selection, and interviews

Think of SnapOrtho as Sketchy for Orthopedics + your personalized roadmap into the field.

We’re just getting started, and we’re grateful for all the support so far. 🙏

👉 Explore more at www.snap-ortho.com

11/08/2025

01/08/2025

21/07/2025

Excited to share our next SnapOrtho Learn video covering Intertrochanteric hip fractures! In this video, you will learn the definition of an intertrochanteric hip fracture, the classification, and treatment options. Audio by Dr. Alex Baur!

We have officially launched our app which now has 700+ downloads and 250+ active learn accounts!! Our goal is to increase early exposure to orthopedics by creating unique and easy to remember sketches for difficult concepts in Orthopedic Surgery.

Our app includes spaced repetition, orthopedic classifications/mnemonics, and our propriety "Ortho BroBot" AI resource to help with case prep along with many other helpful study resources for medical students and ortho residents!

Excited to share our next SnapOrtho Learn video covering Intertrochanteric hip fractures! In this video, you will learn the definition of an intertrochanteri...

17/07/2025

Houston Methodist & Vanderbilt were selected to co-lead the Orthopedics Today Grand Rounds series for this academic year!

Excited to share the first interesting case for the year: 52-year-old man with right distal forearm pain and right hand paresthesias

Great work by our team!

A 52-year-old man presented to our orthopedic clinic with an 8-month history of a right distal forearm mass accompanied by severe pain and right-hand numbness.He reported paresthesias in the median nerve distribution, significant weakness and functional impairment. Prior to presentation, the patient...

06/07/2025

17/06/2025

Excited to pre-launch "SnapOrtho" with our first video on Distal Radius Fractures! Great to collaborate with my friend Alex Baur who started this company. We have been working hard these past months creating unique and easy to remember sketches for difficult concepts in Orthopedic Surgery. We have officially launched our app which will include spaced repetition and many helpful study resources for medical students and ortho residents!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSqiWf5Z-B0&ab_channel=AustinNguyen%2CMD

Follow SnapOrtho on our platforms to stay up-to-date on our launch:

Website: https://www.snap-ortho.com/
App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/snaportho/id6742800145
X: https://x.com/SnapOrtho
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/snaportho/

SnapOrtho: Memorize, Master, and Excel in Orthopedics.
The goal of SnapOrtho is to adopt research-proven, well established methods of studying many of us have used in medical school and apply it to the field of Orthopedic Surgery. We use visual learning, the method of loci aka memory palace, and spaced repetition to make it easy and fun to learn Orthopedic Surgery classifications, management, and treatment options

Excited to pre-launch "SnapOrtho" with our first video on Distal Radius Fractures! Great to collaborate with my friend Alex Baur who started this company. We...

29/06/2024

PGY-1 ✅

Grateful for an amazing year training with this crew. Looking forward to the next one 🔥

12/08/2023

Excited to share our new published paper, "The Effect of Changes in Segmental Lordosis on Global Lumbar and Adjacent Segment Lordosis After L5-S1 Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion"

Our study reports the degree of compensatory loss of lordosis at the adjacent level L4-L5 correlated with the extent of segmental lordosis creation at the index L5-S1 level. This may suggest that the L4 to S1 segment acts as a “harmonious unit,” able to accommodate only a certain amount of lordosis and further increases in segmental lordosis may be mitigated by a loss of adjacent-level lordosis.

Thank you Global Spine Journal & AO Spine, and all the amazing efforts of my co-authors & mentors!

Study Design Retrospective Cohort Study. Objective Restoration of lordosis in lumbar fusion reduces low back pain, decreases adjacent segment degeneration, and ...