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Whats up peeps, Any non-Ivy leaguers in here???
This is driving me insane...Trying to stay in Chicago. I am still unable to decide Between Loyola or Rush for my 1st choice.
LOYOLA PROS- Crazy good clinical training, program seems to have bettered since going on probation, lots of transplants and trauma, baller gym/hospital, pretty decent fellowship placement, excellent comradery, all around nice people, intern year is apparently pretty brutal (not sure if this is for the anesthesia Clinical base year for anesthesia or just prelim medicine)???
LOYOLA CONS- Residents seemed like they worked very hard, recent probation, location is not as good as Rush , call is like q6-8 (something like that), probably aint ever gona have much time to dunk on sweet sweet court.
RUSH PROS- less call than Loyola (Q3-5???), call seemed less busy, didactics seemed pretty solid, great location, residents seemed more perky and happy when talking about rush, more diverse fellowship placement than loyola, strong in pain (not really my cup of tea)
RUSH CONS- staff seemed a little cynical (not as nice as loyolas staff) , no trauma, not as much transplants/huge cases as loyola, paper charting in OR (this is supposed to change soon)
In summary: My general feel is that Loyola has better clinical training, better case diversity and nicer staff but it comes with at heavy price in terms of hours/brutal first year and maybe a less diverse fellowship placement when compares to Rush. Rush on the other hand seems like it has less stressed out residents who get to spend more time enjoying life outside of the OR and a less terrible first year at the cost of less clinical diversity.
I know most of you are talking about the "top 10 schools" but I was truly impressed by these two programs and I would love to hear any opinions on these programs!
This is driving me insane...Trying to stay in Chicago. I am still unable to decide Between Loyola or Rush for my 1st choice.
LOYOLA PROS- Crazy good clinical training, program seems to have bettered since going on probation, lots of transplants and trauma, baller gym/hospital, pretty decent fellowship placement, excellent comradery, all around nice people, intern year is apparently pretty brutal (not sure if this is for the anesthesia Clinical base year for anesthesia or just prelim medicine)???
LOYOLA CONS- Residents seemed like they worked very hard, recent probation, location is not as good as Rush , call is like q6-8 (something like that), probably aint ever gona have much time to dunk on sweet sweet court.
RUSH PROS- less call than Loyola (Q3-5???), call seemed less busy, didactics seemed pretty solid, great location, residents seemed more perky and happy when talking about rush, more diverse fellowship placement than loyola, strong in pain (not really my cup of tea)
RUSH CONS- staff seemed a little cynical (not as nice as loyolas staff) , no trauma, not as much transplants/huge cases as loyola, paper charting in OR (this is supposed to change soon)
In summary: My general feel is that Loyola has better clinical training, better case diversity and nicer staff but it comes with at heavy price in terms of hours/brutal first year and maybe a less diverse fellowship placement when compares to Rush. Rush on the other hand seems like it has less stressed out residents who get to spend more time enjoying life outside of the OR and a less terrible first year at the cost of less clinical diversity.
I know most of you are talking about the "top 10 schools" but I was truly impressed by these two programs and I would love to hear any opinions on these programs!
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