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It looks like this is a yearly tradition. Had my first interview today, so I'll kick it off.
OU-Tulsa
Interview overview
1. food/accommodations -- dinner the night before at a local restaurant in a midtown fancy outdoor shopping area. We had 4 residents and 5 interviewees there, so it was a pretty small, informal group. The program puts applicants up in a Doubletree, and residents are more than willing to drive applicants to the dinner and to the interview, so there's no need to rent a car if you fly in.
2. interview day -- I had interviews with 6 different faculty members. 4 were one on one, and one had 2 faculty members present. No interviews with other students. The day starts with a powerpoint presentation about the program. Interviews are next and then lunch with the residents. The day ends with a tour of the hospital where residents do their inpatient rotations. They generally interview 5 applicants at a session.
Program overview -- this is a small program with 5 residents in each class. There's also a fp/psych program here, that has 2 residents/class. Very collegial program with a resident-friendly schedule. Hospital call limited to 2 months of inpatient primary care medicine your first year.
PGY-1 -- 4 months primary care that can be done in family medicine, pediatrics or internal medicine. 2 months are inpatient and 2 are outpatient. Most residents opt for family medicine, which apparently has a very cush outpatient schedule, and a night float for inpatient. Call on peds inpatient was q4, and probably more grueling than either IM or FM. Call on IM is q5. Your 2 months of inpatient should be the only months of overnight call.
4 months of inpatient at a private hospital. Generally considered to be a very nice psychiatric hospital with good facilities and staff. Call is approx. q3 with alternating weekends between residents (missed how often residents are on call on the weekends). Residents are required to stay and workup patients until 9 pm on call -- then they go home and have home pager call.
1 month emergency psych -- in the psychiatric hospital admission area. This is new.
3 months neuro with private neurologists.
PGY 2 -- 12 months of clinic. You're assigned a psychotherapy supervisor who works with you throughout the year. Live session monitoring for about every 4 sessions. Apparently a pretty strong emphasis both in CBT and psychodynamic therapy. Residents get their own (really nice!) office in the clinic. Residents stressed that they felt psychotherapy education here is a strength of the program.
PGY 3-4 -- consultation/liaison at the largest hospital in town, PACT team month, chemical dependency training through an outpatient intensive rehab program. Child/Adolescent training at a local psychiatric center -- this is also new. Elective opportunities in ECT, eating disorders, geriatrics, etc..
Faculty -- supportive/friendly/well-trained. Apparently very receptive to feedback from residents.
Location -- Tulsa's a small city with bad roads but not much traffic. Cost of living is very cheap. You can get a nice old house in the trendy part of town for less than $200k. A sizeable Native American population. Other than that, not a ton of diversity. Nice parks, decent restaurants, opera, ballet, etc..
Benefits -- free food and parking almost everywhere. Residents seem satisfied with medical insurance. $500 budget for books. $200 in first year for iphone/blackberry.
Program strengths -- very friendly program, and all the residents really are happy to be there. Good psychotherapy training. Nice schedule. Supportive environment for residents. EMR that you can access from home. Easy access to research opportunities. Program just hired some big neuroimaging guy.
Potential weaknesses -- small program so less built in exposure to different areas. No fellowships -- plans on board to have child/adolescent fellowship in ~5 years. Limited diversity and limited exposure to psych EM.
OU-Tulsa
Interview overview
1. food/accommodations -- dinner the night before at a local restaurant in a midtown fancy outdoor shopping area. We had 4 residents and 5 interviewees there, so it was a pretty small, informal group. The program puts applicants up in a Doubletree, and residents are more than willing to drive applicants to the dinner and to the interview, so there's no need to rent a car if you fly in.
2. interview day -- I had interviews with 6 different faculty members. 4 were one on one, and one had 2 faculty members present. No interviews with other students. The day starts with a powerpoint presentation about the program. Interviews are next and then lunch with the residents. The day ends with a tour of the hospital where residents do their inpatient rotations. They generally interview 5 applicants at a session.
Program overview -- this is a small program with 5 residents in each class. There's also a fp/psych program here, that has 2 residents/class. Very collegial program with a resident-friendly schedule. Hospital call limited to 2 months of inpatient primary care medicine your first year.
PGY-1 -- 4 months primary care that can be done in family medicine, pediatrics or internal medicine. 2 months are inpatient and 2 are outpatient. Most residents opt for family medicine, which apparently has a very cush outpatient schedule, and a night float for inpatient. Call on peds inpatient was q4, and probably more grueling than either IM or FM. Call on IM is q5. Your 2 months of inpatient should be the only months of overnight call.
4 months of inpatient at a private hospital. Generally considered to be a very nice psychiatric hospital with good facilities and staff. Call is approx. q3 with alternating weekends between residents (missed how often residents are on call on the weekends). Residents are required to stay and workup patients until 9 pm on call -- then they go home and have home pager call.
1 month emergency psych -- in the psychiatric hospital admission area. This is new.
3 months neuro with private neurologists.
PGY 2 -- 12 months of clinic. You're assigned a psychotherapy supervisor who works with you throughout the year. Live session monitoring for about every 4 sessions. Apparently a pretty strong emphasis both in CBT and psychodynamic therapy. Residents get their own (really nice!) office in the clinic. Residents stressed that they felt psychotherapy education here is a strength of the program.
PGY 3-4 -- consultation/liaison at the largest hospital in town, PACT team month, chemical dependency training through an outpatient intensive rehab program. Child/Adolescent training at a local psychiatric center -- this is also new. Elective opportunities in ECT, eating disorders, geriatrics, etc..
Faculty -- supportive/friendly/well-trained. Apparently very receptive to feedback from residents.
Location -- Tulsa's a small city with bad roads but not much traffic. Cost of living is very cheap. You can get a nice old house in the trendy part of town for less than $200k. A sizeable Native American population. Other than that, not a ton of diversity. Nice parks, decent restaurants, opera, ballet, etc..
Benefits -- free food and parking almost everywhere. Residents seem satisfied with medical insurance. $500 budget for books. $200 in first year for iphone/blackberry.
Program strengths -- very friendly program, and all the residents really are happy to be there. Good psychotherapy training. Nice schedule. Supportive environment for residents. EMR that you can access from home. Easy access to research opportunities. Program just hired some big neuroimaging guy.
Potential weaknesses -- small program so less built in exposure to different areas. No fellowships -- plans on board to have child/adolescent fellowship in ~5 years. Limited diversity and limited exposure to psych EM.