I come from a school where we train at several different hospitals and the IM program here includes several different hospitals. It seems a lot of programs in the NE are one hospital programs. How could you possibly get really good training at one hospital?

Second, training at a ghetto county hospital was a very valuable experience for me. Which of top programs along the east and west coast offer more than one hospital experience and a good "ghetto" hospital where you get to see and do a lot?

I could certainly be wrong about having to train at multiple hospitals including a ghetto one to learn a lot. Please share your views with me.

I come from a school where we train at several different hospitals and the IM program here includes several different hospitals. It seems a lot of programs in the NE are one hospital programs. How could you possibly get really good training at one hospital?

Second, training at a ghetto county hospital was a very valuable experience for me. Which of top programs along the east and west coast offer more than one hospital experience and a good "ghetto" hospital where you get to see and do a lot?

I could certainly be wrong about having to train at multiple hospitals including a ghetto one to learn a lot. Please share your views with me.

It sounds like a program like St. Luke's-Roosevelt has what you are looking for. The downtown campus is a 350 bed private hospital serving the lower part of the Upper West Side of New York City (Lincoln Center area). The uptown compus in Morningside Heights is a 400 bed hospital that serves an ethnically and socioeconomic population further uptown near the Columbia undergraduate campus and in the middle of one of New York's biggest Dominican populations.

I warn you it is busy as hell but the program makes special efforts to make sure you can learn from every patient. The new "drip" system (as opposed to boluses of patients) helps there by having a slow but steady stream of admissions (2 every day) instead of slamming you with 5 on call and 3 more on short call every fourth day.