3rd or 4th year for chief?

[clintpark]

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For current residents, what level residents serve as chiefs at your program? Pros and cons?

I am very interested in your experiences because we are discussing about making the 3rd years (after one year of transition shared between a 4th yr and a 3rd yr) be chiefs in the future.

Thank you very much for your input.

 

[Adawaal]

At Minnesota the senior(s) is/are chief. I know some programs (CCF, at least while I was interviewing) have the 3rd-year resident(s) as chief. I can see pros and cons for both ways. Certainly a senior will be off interviewing during the fall and early winter. But at many places 3rd-year residents are off doing research that year and really can't take so much time to deal with chief issues. In the end, I'm not sure it really matters all that much. Every department has its own unique personality in which one form would work better than the other....

 

[napoleondynamite]

When I rotated through Arizona, their R3 (yes, I do mean the 2nd year resident) was the Chief...