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License:USMD
Region: South East
Pubs:1
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PE/CS: PASS
Programs:
1. Baylor
Pros: Big academic name, reasonable intern year, great work-life balance, PD was awesome, residents are nice and handle business, texas medical center is amazing
Cons: Chief just left, but maybe for the better
2. UT-Houston
Pros: Texas medical center, residents are awesome and normal people, great clinical training, great trauma, get paid after 5 Cons: Hours are long especially intern year, huge new trauma center being built and I take that to mean that volume aka work is going to increase (i.e., U chicago)
3.Stanford
Pros: Palo alto is gorgeous, brand new hospital about to be finished, unmatched case variety, automatic lifelong respect afterwards (for whatever that's worth)
Cons: Would want to go the prelim-advanced route because the intern year is horrendous. Long ways away from home. Kind of ready to be done with the whole prestige grind and anesthesia as a specialty isn't really about that
4. UT Southwestern
Pros: Great case complexity, big name, Dallas is fun and a great place to live, beautiful facilities
Cons: Very hard work especially intern year, UTSW has a culture that I really don't see myself enjoying for 4 years
5.UTMB
Pros: Nice faculty and residents, literally a repeat 4th year instead of intern year, good private practice readiness, nice new hospital, good work-life balance
Cons: Gavleston is old and I wouldn't like to live there on a resident salary
6.UT San Antonio
Pros: Get paid after 3:30, affordable growing city, residents are chill
Cons: Administration in flux, longer hours of the places I saw
7.University of Chicago
Pros: Facilities are out of this world, big name
Cons: Really long hours with new level 1 trauma center, chicago is expensive and cold and I don't know anyone there
8.Beth Israel
Pros: Part of the Harvard medical system and all the resources that come with that, really nice facilities, likeable residents who handle their business and like to have fun
Cons: Way too much OB, Boston is expensive and cold and I don't know anyone there, kind of the 3rd fiddle to the other 2 HMS programs
9.Baylor Scott and White
Pros: Really nice, easy-going residents, great faculty and culture, growing medical center, good side-pay deals
Cons: Location
10.Tulane
Pros: Small tight-knit program, PD was awesome
Cons: Old facilities, HCA-owned, New Orleans would get old
11.Arkansas Pros: Really nice and relatable PD, little rock is a really nice place
Cons: Tough intern year and long hours, old facilities, didn't get along with residents, lots of recent board failures (left out board pass rates from interview powerpoint), new chair who is focusing more on research than improving the program