Cedars Sinai program

I'm a 4th-year getting ready to apply, too. From what I've heard, it is a solid clinical program....

Their chairman was hired in the past 3-5 years, very biologically oriented, but he is by far the nicest chairman you will meet in real life. Their PD is very psychologically oriented, as evident during the interview. The one resident I knew from Cedars loves the program, and I think he is getting wonderful training. And sounds like moonlighting is excellent there as well.

does anyone know what population this program serves? I was told it is a private hospital - does that mean it serves a well-off population? Is there not much contact with underserved populations?

Has anyone heard anything about how intense this program and its hours are?

I am currently a second-year resident at CSMC and would say it is by no means a cush program. It is a private non-profit community hospital which serves a huge surrounding population made up of every cultural and socioeconomic group. I initially thought that CSMC (being so close to Beverly Hills) would only serve mostly upper-class citizens, but this is definitely not the case and I think it is one of our greatest strengths that we see everything from homeless chronicly psychotic patients to VIP/celebrity. The residents here work hard, but all of us also maintain active social lives and love what we do. We currently have 5 residents per year and are moving to 4 PGY1s and 6 PGY2s to accomidate a nightfloat system due to ACGME work hour changes. This means there is usually only one resident per inpatient team or covering a service (which could get busy) but you also work directly with attendings and have tons of autonomy. On average I work 8am-5pm and took 50 calls my first year and 35 calls this year. However, this is changing with a nightfloat system so PGY1s will never take an overnight call and PGY2s will have 2 months of nightfloat spread out through the year.

Please feel free to PM me if you have further questions...I can also give you my email if you want to know more about our program.