Position open for PGY-2 at USC

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A position for a radiation oncology PGY-2 or possibly PGY-3 has opened up at USC in LA. Please contact the program director.

This is the info for the department administrator, Tom Hsu.

Department of Radiation Oncology
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California, NOR0319
1441 Eastlake Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90033-0804
Chairman's Office (323) 865-3072
Administration (323) 865-3092
FAX (323) 865-3037
E-mail: [email protected]
 
Does anyone know anything about this program? What is their reputation like, how is the training, are the residents happy etc.?
 
The Program Director at USC is a wonderful man and I'm sure would be an asset to be able to train with. The Chairman is highly regarded in the field, but was cold to me at an ASCO conference. One of the younger attendings was very nice, as well, and seemed into teaching. The diversity of patients, the volume of peds, the amount of brachy (b/c of their connection with that dude that invented the procedure) all make it probably a great place to get trained.

However, the residents were super defensive about their program (red card, IMO), worked a ton of hours (yellow card, to stick with soccer metaphors), and the scut was ridiculous compared to other programs (yellow card). There is a brand new county hospital in the works (or completed?), but LAC, like other county hospitals, is County with a capital C and has nothing to do with physical plant. However, much of the time is spent at the private facility, Norris, I believe.

Of note, the only place I was berated by an interviewer was here. The physicist was aggressive and condescending. The only other place where someone was not nice during the interview was the place I originally matched, but I did not note the sneering and jeering that this guy displayed. Some people would give their left (or right) testicle (excuse my sexist metaphor, ladies, substitute ovary, if it pleases you) to live in Southern California, and that may make it worthwhile. Or, like me, you just need a spot ...

-S
 
Does anyone know what the status of this position is? Is it still available? Thanks.
 
It has been filled by and MD-PHD from th East Coast.
 
Their other/original PGY-2 resident is also a MD/PhD from the east coast, correct?
 
The current PGY-2 resident is a MD-PhD from the east coast as the other incoming PGY-2 resident.
 
Does anyone know why the resident left USC? Did he/she transfer to another program or leave RadOnc altogether. Is there a list of programs of where residents have left? I heard that Univ of Maryland lost a resident, too. According to one of the threads, Univ. of Maryland is supposed to be a top program. Is that something we should ask the other residents or the faculty if/when we interview?
 
I think the corret series of events ae as follows:

Incoming PGY-2 at Arizona left for Nuclear Medicine. The University of Arizona spot was filled by a USC resident. That left a USC residency spot open. That was filled by an MD/Phd who went to medschool in the midwest and matched in Urology at Wake Forest. Realizing that radonc is truly where it is at he heard of the USC position and moved over after the first year of Urology/Surgery. I don't think any f the events should reflect badly on the institutions, rather a change of heart in the applicants.
 
you can always call the people who have left to get their view if that information is public. what you hear from individuals can be very different from what is publically stated.
 
The University of Maryland spot was vacated by a resident who left for Wake Forest. The Maryland spot was filled by a rad-onc resident from an East Coast program that recently folded, so that narrows it down a bit. From talking to the resident who left U of Md, I got the impression that she was a little unhappy with the program and felt it was a little malignant. Also, I think she had family in North Carolina. The chair of the department at Maryland came from Thomas Jefferson and brings a little bit of that atmosphere there. Saying that, I thought the program was definitely on its way to being one of the top programs in the country.
 
XRTMM said:
The University of Maryland spot was vacated by a resident who left for Wake Forest. The Maryland spot was filled by a rad-onc resident from an East Coast program that recently folded, so that narrows it down a bit. From talking to the resident who left U of Md, I got the impression that she was a little unhappy with the program and felt it was a little malignant. Also, I think she had family in North Carolina. The chair of the department at Maryland came from Thomas Jefferson and brings a little bit of that atmosphere there. Saying that, I thought the program was definitely on its way to being one of the top programs in the country.
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I've also heard now from multiple sources that the Maryland program is getting to be malignant. But on the same level as Jefferson? Is it worth applying to a malignant program because they might have fewer applicants?
 
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