Went to see Christiana Care's program in Delaware recently. I was using it mostly as a warmup, but I have to say I was more impressed with the program than I expected.
Strengths include two big hospitals, including a freestanding children's hospital, a director who is by all accounts a great advocate for his residents, a very cohesive-seeming program, and a somewhat more rigorous intellectual environment than I had been set up to expect.
Weaknesses include the fact that the main adult hospital and the children's hospital are widely separated (~20+ min shuttle between), a strange division of labor in peds, where Christiana does births, NICU, and incoming peds traumas, but the only PICU is at duPont, which has a postsurgical NICU only. For me, the location is not ideal either, and physical beauty is not a strong attribute of the area immediately proximate to the hospital.
The interview itself was benign and informative, although you do 5 interviews over a single 9-hour day that includes morning report and some tours. Residents were eager to talk and didn't seem to hold much back. No one was very negative about the place as a whole, and they retain a lot of alumni.
Hope this is helpful- I see Cincy next.
NS
