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You do realize this post is from 2007. Sorry I would help but I don't know.
I am curious to think what Mr. Lobel thinks are the TOP 5 Programs. I respect his opinion...thanks Steve....and I look for his posts often.
In my opinion there are 6 Top programs (Washington, RIC, Mayo, BAYLOR/UT ALLIANCE, KESSLER, and Harvard/Spaulding) and than probably 20-25 programs after them that are great and broad based for exposure, training, diversity of staff and patient cases, quality of life, ect. The other 40 programs tend to often be either good at one thing or have one or two awesome staff or experiences and seriously lacking in some pretty sig areas such as msk, sports, spine, amount of emgs, amount of procedures, time on inpatient wards ect.
I think it is good to hear about the other programs that maybe do not get the press, but have great training, great staff, and ultimately help residents get where the want to go with their PM&R careers.
Bad programs should be called out. Free speech and press. We should be objective and base it on facts. But it is important for our student doctors to know what they are getting themselves into...any program can put on a show on interview day....even a bad one.
Just glad there are not many maligant if any PM&R programs left.
I still want to know who Steve thinks is TOP 5 because maybe I am off based.
Incidentally, the hype about the weather in this city is somewhat overblown.
Experience with spinal injections at UW is variable. I did about 10 in residency. That being said, that is not dissimilar to other "top" programs. A prior RIC resident (who ended up doing sports and spine) told me that she performed about 10-15. during residency. I did plenty of peripheral injections./QUOTE]
For the record, this is NOT consistent with the experience provided at Mayo.