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Dinner at this nice Jamaican fusion-y place. Pretty good. I had good crabcakes. Strange because 2 triple-board residents showed, and later, a PGY-1, who was older (my age-ish), and a PGY-2, who I didn't get to talk to too much…other end of the table. PGY-1 made a point of coming down and talking to me, which was nice of him. Also at interview was a guy I interviewed with at Indy, who was from Indy. He thinks Indy works a bit too hard for his tastes, especially off service, which is worth considering…and that Indy schools are TOO big…likely moving his kid to private school in Fishers out of Fishers public b/c public is too big…anyways…
Residents seem very happy. Psych work days seem to be 7:30-3 or 4 or 5:30, depending. Short call once a week or so until 9:30 (earlier if it's really slow). Weekend shifts are 12 hours, I think you have to do 4 weekend shifts during 1st year..at least that's what they said…unless I misunderstood, might be 8, now that they've gone to 12 h shifts... Regardless, residents do not appear overworked.
2nd year has a LOT of C-L service, maybe too much. 7:30-5:30 M-F. No call, no weekends. I think you might take regular psych short call and weekends though, as in first year…not much. Maybe. Maybe not? Regardless, not bad.
Parking pretty good at hospital, but minimized (you can park here, but it fills up, then there's another lot down there, and another one further down there…meaning you'll probably wind up "down there" I'm guessing…
Call: Night Float, short call, weekends. Covers (in order of importance/priority)
1) inpatient unit
2) new ER admits
3) phone admits/consults at fancy hospital
4) Samaritan consults (pass off to morning, unless really slow)
Inpatient unit is 19 beds, divided into 2 teams of 11 and 8. Team with 11 has 2 residents, other team has 1 resident. Pretty much always full. Average length of stay just a few days. Everyone mixed together, no separate units for different diagnoses.
Overall, everyone seems very happy. After dinner, took a tour of Good Samaritan Hospital, where the psych inpatient unit is. Facilities are fine, but pretty crappy. Mostly have an EMR, but it's not Epic and I've never heard of it. Didn't really get to see it in action. Staff that helps out with new admits (social work types) are AMAZING and REALLY help you admit new patients, by interviewing them and giving you a good typed up H&P you can use for your note.
Then, took a tour of the fancy new hospital, where you do Neuro and some consults. There is also an "old" hospital attached where you do medicine and neuro and some other consults. Didn't see the old hospital, but the "new" hospital was a nice as any I've ever seen. Private patient rooms. Shiny.
Interview day went well. Started LATE (11:45) with lunch with many residents. All awesome and friendly. Sat in on a Grand Rounds (topic: "How to Make a Psychopath") which was interesting and awesome. One loser attending kept badgering the poor speaker about "yeah, but they thought genetics was responsible for blah-blah-blah for a while, then that didn't pan out…like he didn't believe what the speaker was saying…It was weird. He was a douche. Speaker took it all in stride.
Sat in on ½ of a didactic for 1st years. Mostly a book group, reviewing a book about psych basics, 4 dimensions...Interesting though. Some residents participated, some just sat there looking bored, but overall an ok group…probably would've felt it was a time waster as a resident, haha.
Dinner at this nice Jamaican fusion-y place. Pretty good. I had good crabcakes. Strange because 2 triple-board residents showed, and later, a PGY-1, who was older (my age-ish), and a PGY-2, who I didn't get to talk to too much…other end of the table. PGY-1 made a point of coming down and talking to me, which was nice of him. Also at interview was a guy I interviewed with at Indy, who was from Indy. He thinks Indy works a bit too hard for his tastes, especially off service, which is worth considering…and that Indy schools are TOO big…likely moving his kid to private school in Fishers out of Fishers public b/c public is too big…anyways…
Residents seem very happy. Psych work days seem to be 7:30-3 or 4 or 5:30, depending. Short call once a week or so until 9:30 (earlier if it's really slow). Weekend shifts are 12 hours, I think you have to do 4 weekend shifts during 1st year..at least that's what they said…unless I misunderstood, might be 8, now that they've gone to 12 h shifts... Regardless, residents do not appear overworked.
2nd year has a LOT of C-L service, maybe too much. 7:30-5:30 M-F. No call, no weekends. I think you might take regular psych short call and weekends though, as in first year…not much. Maybe. Maybe not? Regardless, not bad.
Parking pretty good at hospital, but minimized (you can park here, but it fills up, then there's another lot down there, and another one further down there…meaning you'll probably wind up "down there" I'm guessing…
Call: Night Float, short call, weekends. Covers (in order of importance/priority)
1) inpatient unit
2) new ER admits
3) phone admits/consults at fancy hospital
4) Samaritan consults (pass off to morning, unless really slow)
Inpatient unit is 19 beds, divided into 2 teams of 11 and 8. Team with 11 has 2 residents, other team has 1 resident. Pretty much always full. Average length of stay just a few days. Everyone mixed together, no separate units for different diagnoses.
Overall, everyone seems very happy. After dinner, took a tour of Good Samaritan Hospital, where the psych inpatient unit is. Facilities are fine, but pretty crappy. Mostly have an EMR, but it's not Epic and I've never heard of it. Didn't really get to see it in action. Staff that helps out with new admits (social work types) are AMAZING and REALLY help you admit new patients, by interviewing them and giving you a good typed up H&P you can use for your note.
Then, took a tour of the fancy new hospital, where you do Neuro and some consults. There is also an "old" hospital attached where you do medicine and neuro and some other consults. Didn't see the old hospital, but the "new" hospital was a nice as any I've ever seen. Private patient rooms. Shiny.
Interview day went well. Started LATE (11:45) with lunch with many residents. All awesome and friendly. Sat in on a Grand Rounds (topic: "How to Make a Psychopath") which was interesting and awesome. One loser attending kept badgering the poor speaker about "yeah, but they thought genetics was responsible for blah-blah-blah for a while, then that didn't pan out…like he didn't believe what the speaker was saying…It was weird. He was a douche. Speaker took it all in stride.
Sat in on ½ of a didactic for 1st years. Mostly a book group, reviewing a book about psych basics, 4 dimensions...Interesting though. Some residents participated, some just sat there looking bored, but overall an ok group…probably would've felt it was a time waster as a resident, haha.