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Utah
(My home institution)
Residents: Honestly this group is very impressive especially for a program that is only three years old. Many of these people came from top notch school and chose to come to a new program over older more established programs. They are very tight, seem to get along well and have a lot of fun together. Lots of outdoors interests but who wouldnt have those when the mountains are a two minute walk out the emergency dept exit.
Faculty: I believe that this is the strength and the weakness of the program. Many of the faculty and most of the younger members are amazing teachers. Most trained at top programs including Carolinas, Highland, Denver, Pitt, Fresno, Arizona, and New Mexico just to name a few. These young well-trained faculty are amazing teachers and great clinicians. The weakness lies in the older physicians at the private hospital where you rotate. Most of the older docs were not emergency trained and a few are just plain unhappy about working with students and residents. These people are definitely in the minority and close to retiring and may have with the hospital move this past fall. Dr Hartsell is the PD and he is very interested in the residents happiness and training. He is somewhat of a renaissance-man and very fun to talk to. Dr Stroud the assistant PD is a hoot she has different color hair all the time and her personality is just as fun. She also is very hands on with the residents and they all seem to love her. This group seems very close to their residents and they do things with the residents all the time including usually something physical after didactics each week for those who dont have to work..
Ancillary Staff: Top notch across the board, never did any scut.
Curriculum: One of the nice things about a new program is a very stream lined curriculum, no off service rotations that are just traditional. I think the curriculum is very strong. You have plenty of ICU months, peds dedicated month during the first year and interspersed shifts during the last two years and the new IMC where you rotate has 25% peds pts to see as well. You get to work at three different hospitals. The University hospital which is busy but does usually slow down by morning time, I think the census is close to 40K, the VA where you get to act like an attending, and IMC a large private hospital with a census over 70K. Both the University and IMC are level 1 trauma centers. I worked at LDS before IMC opened and it boasted one of the most efficient EDs in the country with average door to doc times of 15 minutes, I heard that IMC was working out some glitches but Im sure by next year it will be very smooth.
Facilities: The university department is very nice it isnt that old but I think they plan on expanding soon. They recently switched over to all electronic record keeping so that is nice. I havent been to the IMC campus but I imagine it is very nice and they dictate all of their notes there. I havent been to the ED in the VA, but I imagine it is just as beautiful as our government believes our heroes of war deserve.
Location: I will try and keep this under 5 pages. What can I say, I love SLC. I have 7 ski resorts 20 minutes from my door, I rarely encounter traffic unless there is an accident, and there are lots of safe places to live. Now if you are a big city person you may be unhappy in SLC, but we still have the symphony, the ballet, decent theater, lots of good music shows, pro basketball, pro soccer and semi-pro baseball. But lets face it, most people who are attracted to Utah are those who want to go Mt biking by walking out of the ED and hitting the trail literally 2 minutes later, or want to check out the most national parks in any state in the contiguous 48, or want to ski great powder after finishing a night shift, or want to climb cliffs that people from all over the world come here to climb. If you like those kinds of things you will like Utah, and I didnt even mention the huge paragliding community, kite skiing or many reservoirs that people ski on all summer long. In short I think SLC is the outdoors lovers paradise. But dont tell Denver that, they think their ski resorts that are two hours away are super convenient (I have relatives in Denver with some major Colorado pride).
Negative: Some turf battles still being fought because its a new program, but the chair Dr Barton is winning most of them. Some of the old faculty at IMC, but like I said they may have already retired.
Overall: I love the Utah program, but of course I may be very biased since it started while I was here in school. But, honestly I think that for a new program it is very strong and that in a few years it will carry a big name with it. The faculty is strong, the curriculum is good and for the outdoors lover you cant get a better location.
(My home institution)
Residents: Honestly this group is very impressive especially for a program that is only three years old. Many of these people came from top notch school and chose to come to a new program over older more established programs. They are very tight, seem to get along well and have a lot of fun together. Lots of outdoors interests but who wouldnt have those when the mountains are a two minute walk out the emergency dept exit.
Faculty: I believe that this is the strength and the weakness of the program. Many of the faculty and most of the younger members are amazing teachers. Most trained at top programs including Carolinas, Highland, Denver, Pitt, Fresno, Arizona, and New Mexico just to name a few. These young well-trained faculty are amazing teachers and great clinicians. The weakness lies in the older physicians at the private hospital where you rotate. Most of the older docs were not emergency trained and a few are just plain unhappy about working with students and residents. These people are definitely in the minority and close to retiring and may have with the hospital move this past fall. Dr Hartsell is the PD and he is very interested in the residents happiness and training. He is somewhat of a renaissance-man and very fun to talk to. Dr Stroud the assistant PD is a hoot she has different color hair all the time and her personality is just as fun. She also is very hands on with the residents and they all seem to love her. This group seems very close to their residents and they do things with the residents all the time including usually something physical after didactics each week for those who dont have to work..
Ancillary Staff: Top notch across the board, never did any scut.
Curriculum: One of the nice things about a new program is a very stream lined curriculum, no off service rotations that are just traditional. I think the curriculum is very strong. You have plenty of ICU months, peds dedicated month during the first year and interspersed shifts during the last two years and the new IMC where you rotate has 25% peds pts to see as well. You get to work at three different hospitals. The University hospital which is busy but does usually slow down by morning time, I think the census is close to 40K, the VA where you get to act like an attending, and IMC a large private hospital with a census over 70K. Both the University and IMC are level 1 trauma centers. I worked at LDS before IMC opened and it boasted one of the most efficient EDs in the country with average door to doc times of 15 minutes, I heard that IMC was working out some glitches but Im sure by next year it will be very smooth.
Facilities: The university department is very nice it isnt that old but I think they plan on expanding soon. They recently switched over to all electronic record keeping so that is nice. I havent been to the IMC campus but I imagine it is very nice and they dictate all of their notes there. I havent been to the ED in the VA, but I imagine it is just as beautiful as our government believes our heroes of war deserve.
Location: I will try and keep this under 5 pages. What can I say, I love SLC. I have 7 ski resorts 20 minutes from my door, I rarely encounter traffic unless there is an accident, and there are lots of safe places to live. Now if you are a big city person you may be unhappy in SLC, but we still have the symphony, the ballet, decent theater, lots of good music shows, pro basketball, pro soccer and semi-pro baseball. But lets face it, most people who are attracted to Utah are those who want to go Mt biking by walking out of the ED and hitting the trail literally 2 minutes later, or want to check out the most national parks in any state in the contiguous 48, or want to ski great powder after finishing a night shift, or want to climb cliffs that people from all over the world come here to climb. If you like those kinds of things you will like Utah, and I didnt even mention the huge paragliding community, kite skiing or many reservoirs that people ski on all summer long. In short I think SLC is the outdoors lovers paradise. But dont tell Denver that, they think their ski resorts that are two hours away are super convenient (I have relatives in Denver with some major Colorado pride).
Negative: Some turf battles still being fought because its a new program, but the chair Dr Barton is winning most of them. Some of the old faculty at IMC, but like I said they may have already retired.
Overall: I love the Utah program, but of course I may be very biased since it started while I was here in school. But, honestly I think that for a new program it is very strong and that in a few years it will carry a big name with it. The faculty is strong, the curriculum is good and for the outdoors lover you cant get a better location.