I am having a difficult time deciding how to rank this program because it does have many pros and cons. There is a tremendous amount of elective time, 9 months over the 3 years, which not only means a greater ability to develop your interests in a particular area, but also more free time for studying and other interests, one of the reviewers on scutwork mentioned he was getting training as an acupuncturist and another was working on writing book, and a greater opportunity to do international rotations, which I am very interested in. It would not be as intense as the downtown Harvard programs, but it is fairly easy to set up rotations to do there, so you can get the best of both worlds. There is access to all of the Harvard libraries, which would be very nice as I am an avid reader. Drawbacks are that it doesn't seem to be a very volume-intensive program, so although the residents said that they learned a lot, I just question whether I would get as good training as a university program even though I can do many rotations at other hospitals. The ER was empty on the day that I interviewed. Patient population is not as diverse as other places and possibly they will have less complex cases since there are so many other Boston programs to get those, although they had an interesting list of diagnoses made at their hospital. Fellowship matching seems to be lacking.
What other opinions do people have from interview day?
