I worked as an attending EM doc there for 3 years, leaving 2 years ago.
All I know is what I saw - I can't speak to the OR, board scores, or anything else, but the surgical residents were technically good, and had a good attitude - there was a morning where I had an elderly lady that fell down and had a scalp bleeder that I couldn't control right around 7am. I called, and I got a PGY-3 who showed up in a flash, and helped me out, and managed to control this arterial bleeder - came right out of rounds.
I didn't get any attitude from any of them, save one - who was a transfer in from a program in NYC. He was a guy that lost out a chest tube to the attending for a hemopneumo. However, he was the outlier. There was one guy whose father is/was a family doc in town, and he went off to fellowship. The program is DO-friendly.
It IS in the "buckle of the bible belt" - there's one surgical attending that would pray with family members - but, overall, it's really, really not a bad place to be.
