I wanted to know what step scores are competitive. How is the residency overall in terms of case diversity (cards, peds, pain, vascular..ect.) Hours per week? How are didactic and teaching faculty? Any pros and cons of the residency?
Thanks!
Let's see:
1) I don't know what step score is competitive. If you apply and we give you an interview then I guess THAT step score is competitive.
2) I think our case diversity is great. There aren't any cases that we don't do that I wish that I had seen. Sinai doesn't do lung transplants, and I don't feel bad about it. We do a lot of liver transplants. Livers everywhere.
3) Hours per week... that's a mixed bag. We're a big residency, so there is generally decent relief system for getting people out by 5ish, but you may stay later or earlier depending on the case volume for the day. Obviously, the more senior you are the earlier you're offered relief. If you want to stick it out and make some extra $$$ that can also affect your hours.
4) I think our faculty are overall great. Like any residency there's a certain amount of variation.
5) Pros: Case mix and patient acuity, autonomy, collegiality (There are only a few faculty that I don't address by their first name), best co-residents in the country, moonlighting money on a scale that can significantly alter your QOL.
Cons: I think that in general if I were to point out any cons, they're the same cons that everyone has with Anesthesiology as a specialty, and I knew that going in, but it still irritates me from time to time. Things like not having a predictable schedule, doing bullsh** cases overnight and on the weekend by surgeons that don't have block time. More than anything I've seen people complain on this forum about work hours for residencies in NYC. Guess what, welcome to New York. Overhead is high, and there's a lot of volume, so the ORs probably run longer here than in a similarly sized hospital in a smaller city.
Anyways, there's my two cents.
