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3 year program
Residents: 10 per yr. They seem happy and normal and enjoy being around each other. The night before the interview, the program sponsors a tapas and sangria event in Manhattan and a good number of the residents show up. About a third live in the city, a third in between Manhasset and the city (i.e. Queens), and a third somewhere around Manhasset. Subsidized housing is available near the hospital grounds which are available to tour. There is a "resident panel" interview which may sound intimidating, but is actually pretty chill. Especially because you've already spent most of the day and part of the night before getting to know them.
Faculty: The department chair, Andrew Sama, wasn't present for my interview day - he had another obligation, as a member of the national board of ACEP. The PD, though, was super chill - Joseph LaMantia - recently elected to the board of CORD. He gave some basic boilerplate talk early in the day about qualities they want to see in their residents and then talked some more about North Shore specifics. Very laid-back interview style.
Hospital:
North Shore is a Level 1 Trauma Center with a BRAND NEW FACILITY. The place is freaking gorgeous. Critical care rooms have the ability to record video of codes, etc to review them later for instruction. Some of the rooms even have tinted windows you can turn on/off with the flip of a switch! They have a similar sort of triage division system within the ED as other programs. They don't have a designated psych area and dismissed that by saying there many other facilities in the region where psych patients are triaged.
North Shore has a very high admission rate: 39%! They attribute that to the fact that many in the community already have primary care docs so they only come to the hospital when they really need to (i.e. when they're REALLY SICK). All the residents were touting this as one of the best aspects of the program. High volume and SICK patients.
Ancillary Stuff: You don't get a great feel for ancillary staff on an interview, but the residents and interns are highly complimentary. Labs and blood cultures are often already drawn before you even see the patient, so you just have to click off the tests you want on the computer.
Documentation: They use EMSTAT for patient tracking, labs and rads, and use paper documentation for the rest of the charting. The faculty were a little hesitant about saying whether or not a transition would be made to electronic charting in the near future.
Curriculum: No medicine floor time! That's a huge plus for me, although one of the residents said that sometimes they have no idea how to direct patients around the hospital. That's probably not the best thing. 1 month is spent at Elmhurst Hospital for penetrating trauma (North Shore receives mainly blunt trauma) and 1 month in the 3rd year is spent at SHOCK in Maryland. A lot of emphasis is given to doing procedures during the 1st year, with emphasis on patient load ramped up more in the 2nd year. A full month is also devoted to pediatric anesthesiology at Schneider Children's during the 2nd year.
Didactics: Wednesday conference runs from 7am to noon with protected Tuesday nights starting at 9pm. Lectures, presentations, and away-site SimCenter time occur during Wed conference.
City: Manhasset is very ritzy without really affordable housing (other than the subsidized spots, given on lottery basis). 2/3rds commute from either Manhattan or Queens, so the city is definitely within reach if that's your thing. Or you can live a bit further out and keep your car.
Extras: Starting salary $56,500 plus $1,800 for housing! 4 weeks vacation, meal allowance, coverage benefits. Fellowships are available in Ultrasound, Critical Care (Medicine) and others.
Negatives: If you're planning on working in an urban environment, you probably want to train in a place where you can learn how to manage all the urban social issues and you definitely don't get that to as great a degree at North Shore.
Overall: North Shore definitely moved up my list after the interview day. Great facilites and great staff mean you can focus on learning emergency medicine and doing more techinical procedures. Manhasset has a lot of the advantages of being close to the city, without the cramped living space and lack of a car. In-house fellowships and happy residents are also a big plus.
Residents: 10 per yr. They seem happy and normal and enjoy being around each other. The night before the interview, the program sponsors a tapas and sangria event in Manhattan and a good number of the residents show up. About a third live in the city, a third in between Manhasset and the city (i.e. Queens), and a third somewhere around Manhasset. Subsidized housing is available near the hospital grounds which are available to tour. There is a "resident panel" interview which may sound intimidating, but is actually pretty chill. Especially because you've already spent most of the day and part of the night before getting to know them.
Faculty: The department chair, Andrew Sama, wasn't present for my interview day - he had another obligation, as a member of the national board of ACEP. The PD, though, was super chill - Joseph LaMantia - recently elected to the board of CORD. He gave some basic boilerplate talk early in the day about qualities they want to see in their residents and then talked some more about North Shore specifics. Very laid-back interview style.
Hospital:
North Shore is a Level 1 Trauma Center with a BRAND NEW FACILITY. The place is freaking gorgeous. Critical care rooms have the ability to record video of codes, etc to review them later for instruction. Some of the rooms even have tinted windows you can turn on/off with the flip of a switch! They have a similar sort of triage division system within the ED as other programs. They don't have a designated psych area and dismissed that by saying there many other facilities in the region where psych patients are triaged.
North Shore has a very high admission rate: 39%! They attribute that to the fact that many in the community already have primary care docs so they only come to the hospital when they really need to (i.e. when they're REALLY SICK). All the residents were touting this as one of the best aspects of the program. High volume and SICK patients.
Ancillary Stuff: You don't get a great feel for ancillary staff on an interview, but the residents and interns are highly complimentary. Labs and blood cultures are often already drawn before you even see the patient, so you just have to click off the tests you want on the computer.
Documentation: They use EMSTAT for patient tracking, labs and rads, and use paper documentation for the rest of the charting. The faculty were a little hesitant about saying whether or not a transition would be made to electronic charting in the near future.
Curriculum: No medicine floor time! That's a huge plus for me, although one of the residents said that sometimes they have no idea how to direct patients around the hospital. That's probably not the best thing. 1 month is spent at Elmhurst Hospital for penetrating trauma (North Shore receives mainly blunt trauma) and 1 month in the 3rd year is spent at SHOCK in Maryland. A lot of emphasis is given to doing procedures during the 1st year, with emphasis on patient load ramped up more in the 2nd year. A full month is also devoted to pediatric anesthesiology at Schneider Children's during the 2nd year.
Didactics: Wednesday conference runs from 7am to noon with protected Tuesday nights starting at 9pm. Lectures, presentations, and away-site SimCenter time occur during Wed conference.
City: Manhasset is very ritzy without really affordable housing (other than the subsidized spots, given on lottery basis). 2/3rds commute from either Manhattan or Queens, so the city is definitely within reach if that's your thing. Or you can live a bit further out and keep your car.
Extras: Starting salary $56,500 plus $1,800 for housing! 4 weeks vacation, meal allowance, coverage benefits. Fellowships are available in Ultrasound, Critical Care (Medicine) and others.
Negatives: If you're planning on working in an urban environment, you probably want to train in a place where you can learn how to manage all the urban social issues and you definitely don't get that to as great a degree at North Shore.
Overall: North Shore definitely moved up my list after the interview day. Great facilites and great staff mean you can focus on learning emergency medicine and doing more techinical procedures. Manhasset has a lot of the advantages of being close to the city, without the cramped living space and lack of a car. In-house fellowships and happy residents are also a big plus.