Just looking for more info on this program. I hear that their residents get pretty good fellowships even though its a community program affilliated with the Univ of Colorado. Thanks!

its been a year since this posted. anybody have any info this year?

I cant find a review of anykind anywhere on this program. Fellowship placement? % of IMG/FGM? anything and everything else?

It's a community program. A lot of non-IM interns due to the large number of prelims, R2s and R3s are a mixed bag... no one terrible that I saw and some very strong FMGs but also DOs here and there (again, not a bad thing per se). Pretty good teaching, including an amazing cardiologist, and decent selection of cases (plus specialty rotations at University of Colorado). Very family-like sense among the residents.

Bads: ICU is Q3 and you may get two months a year... including back-to-back. Residents don't do any procedures other than paracenteses (surgery called for every single line during my four weeks of ICU) -- not forbidden as far as I could tell, just not interested and no supervision available to teach. Private attendings suck bad. No support at night (sure you can call them, but will they ever call back?). Non-evidence based bizarre wild-ass medicine by the privates that leads to you getting reamed during rounds with your teaching attendings. Total lack of autonomy and decision-making -- every non-emergent test has to be approved by the private attending... Huge dumping service for indigenous patients in a hospital that's not set up to provide good care for the indigents leads to constant clusterf*.

Good program if you want to be a private attending at Kaiser when you grow up, but I wouldn't count on any fellowships.

The program is not affiliated with U of Colorado -- the U simply lets a few St Joe's residents do specialty rotations there.

Thanks for the info about the program. The lack of procedurals kinda scares me. Anybody have any other opinions, I would love to hear em.

I honestly can't say if the procedures are lacking or if the residents are just not motivated to do them (or lack the proper supervision and training to feel comfortable doing them... more likely the latter since GME demands a certain number of procedures to get licensed).