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Washington University at St. Louis
Residents: 12 per class. All seemed very happy with their training. A second year said the intern year was a good one with little call. Residents got along well and the ones I met seemed pretty laid back.
Faculty: I was very impressed with Dr. Char the program director. He seems to have a lot of passion for residency education and genuinely seems to care about making sure everything that the residents do is worthwhile. Residents also praised the faculty and despite Wash I being a top medical center, the atmosphere is far from malignant.
Facilities: Barnes-Jewish is ranked as the #6 hospital, but that is all arbitrary of course. Very impressed with the ED and all of the cool toys they had at their disposal. The difficult airway cart they had was awesome which included 4 endoscopic laryngoscopes. Built in in-room xray machines in each of the 6 trauma bays was another nice feature. Top notch brand new facilities that are all organized to make sense. And the ICUs are incredible as well which is also nice since you rotate through most of their units. St. Louis Childrens is #3 in the nation for Peds EM, and also had an impressive ED including 2 of their own trauma bays.
Curriculum: Did not like the fact that there are 3 ward months intern year: medicine, peds, AND surgery. Interns rotate through the CT-ICU as well, which all the residents felt was a very strong learning experience with very little call during that month. Second years rotate through the NeuroICU, PICU, MICU, and SICU. Since its a 4 year program, their moonlighting policy was important to me, and they do allow it. Most of them do it in a hospital to the west and those who work there feel it is a great experience, one that has actually helped graduates get their choice jobs.
Patient population: This is a unique place in that the facilities are like a rich private hospital but the patients that come in are similar to patients that go to county hospitals. They get very sick patients here so managing septic patients, CHF, traumas, etc. will be cake after 4 years. The great thing is that these patients get top notch care as opposed to those at some county hospitals since they have a lot of things at their disposal to diagnose and treat their patients.
Location: Im not a big fan of the mid-west area but there are so many good EM programs out there that I had to check some of them out. St. Louis seems like an ok city, the crime rate is high, but most of the good EM programs are in locations with high crime. There seems to be plenty of things to do though, and its an affordable place to live.
Overall: I was pleasantly surprised by Wash U. Its a big name institution, but the program is only 9 years old and still a division of surgery, so I had my doubts at first, but I cant imagine any of the graduates of the program not being up to par with the best EM programs around. I feel that this place will be ranked fairly high in the end.
Residents: 12 per class. All seemed very happy with their training. A second year said the intern year was a good one with little call. Residents got along well and the ones I met seemed pretty laid back.
Faculty: I was very impressed with Dr. Char the program director. He seems to have a lot of passion for residency education and genuinely seems to care about making sure everything that the residents do is worthwhile. Residents also praised the faculty and despite Wash I being a top medical center, the atmosphere is far from malignant.
Facilities: Barnes-Jewish is ranked as the #6 hospital, but that is all arbitrary of course. Very impressed with the ED and all of the cool toys they had at their disposal. The difficult airway cart they had was awesome which included 4 endoscopic laryngoscopes. Built in in-room xray machines in each of the 6 trauma bays was another nice feature. Top notch brand new facilities that are all organized to make sense. And the ICUs are incredible as well which is also nice since you rotate through most of their units. St. Louis Childrens is #3 in the nation for Peds EM, and also had an impressive ED including 2 of their own trauma bays.
Curriculum: Did not like the fact that there are 3 ward months intern year: medicine, peds, AND surgery. Interns rotate through the CT-ICU as well, which all the residents felt was a very strong learning experience with very little call during that month. Second years rotate through the NeuroICU, PICU, MICU, and SICU. Since its a 4 year program, their moonlighting policy was important to me, and they do allow it. Most of them do it in a hospital to the west and those who work there feel it is a great experience, one that has actually helped graduates get their choice jobs.
Patient population: This is a unique place in that the facilities are like a rich private hospital but the patients that come in are similar to patients that go to county hospitals. They get very sick patients here so managing septic patients, CHF, traumas, etc. will be cake after 4 years. The great thing is that these patients get top notch care as opposed to those at some county hospitals since they have a lot of things at their disposal to diagnose and treat their patients.
Location: Im not a big fan of the mid-west area but there are so many good EM programs out there that I had to check some of them out. St. Louis seems like an ok city, the crime rate is high, but most of the good EM programs are in locations with high crime. There seems to be plenty of things to do though, and its an affordable place to live.
Overall: I was pleasantly surprised by Wash U. Its a big name institution, but the program is only 9 years old and still a division of surgery, so I had my doubts at first, but I cant imagine any of the graduates of the program not being up to par with the best EM programs around. I feel that this place will be ranked fairly high in the end.