Hey everyone,
Just curious what everyone else's perspective is on this? What I am basically asking is - do you think there is such a thing as being overly prepared (especially in our field)? I.e. my thought process for picking a residency destination was that I want a high volume (patients per resident), level 1 trauma center with enough (but not nonstop) trauma, that would make me more than capable when I left to do a solid job. This definitely factored into my final rank list as some programs that I felt had weaker training were lower, while those who arguably had extra intense (almost unnecessarily) training were also lower.
I spoke to a Kaiser ER doc recently and she said: "80-90% of you coming out will work at a place like this, where it is so rare that trauma is anything too bad, and you've seen way more than enough that you know what to do. The other 10-15% at big county scary academic centers will be giving their senior residents the lead and having their junior residents doing procedures. And as far as multi tasking, having gone through residency you will be more than fine doing it."
Thoughts?
Just curious what everyone else's perspective is on this? What I am basically asking is - do you think there is such a thing as being overly prepared (especially in our field)? I.e. my thought process for picking a residency destination was that I want a high volume (patients per resident), level 1 trauma center with enough (but not nonstop) trauma, that would make me more than capable when I left to do a solid job. This definitely factored into my final rank list as some programs that I felt had weaker training were lower, while those who arguably had extra intense (almost unnecessarily) training were also lower.
I spoke to a Kaiser ER doc recently and she said: "80-90% of you coming out will work at a place like this, where it is so rare that trauma is anything too bad, and you've seen way more than enough that you know what to do. The other 10-15% at big county scary academic centers will be giving their senior residents the lead and having their junior residents doing procedures. And as far as multi tasking, having gone through residency you will be more than fine doing it."
Thoughts?