Teach a topic to a non-ortho colleague: the best retrieval practice I found

Once a week I'd pick a subspecialty topic and explain it in plain language to my GP partner over coffee — no jargon, no shortcuts. Explaining compartment syndrome pathophysiology or the Scoliosis Research Society classification to someone outside orthopaedics forced me to actually understand it rather than pattern-match from memory. I was shocked at how many gaps this exposed. It's essentially the Feynman technique applied to exam preparation.