Avoid practicing in Minnesota if you can.
Minnesota Board of Medical Practice: Denial of due process, aggressive board attorney, corrupt and incompetent board staff, board is overcompensating to change its reputation for "going easy" on disciplining docs, misleading public announcements about disciplined docs with no ability for the doc to add a rebuttal like in other states, docs totally at board's capricious and often callous whims. Now thought to be the worst doc-friendly board of all which has worsened MNs shortage of docs.
The Minneapolis VA is about the worst in the nation even for a VA. Sad to say because my dad is a vet!
University of Minnesota's Department of Family Practice and Community Health is not what it once was. They forcefully push a social agenda on residents many of whom are from off-shore medical schools. Rotations can be in several locations throughout the Twin Cities so lots of driving, traffic and headaches.
Mayo generally is a good place to train but Rochester now has big city problems like lousy schools, a soaring violent crime rate and very expensive cost of living. Its not family friendly anymore.
Summer is short followed by 8-9 months of miserable, windy cold. And the car-eating snow...ugh! Southern Minnesota is one of the windiest places in the USA.
To the doc who posted that he was considering residency U of MN or a place in Nevada: go the NV! Save yourself and your career friend!
Minnesota Board of Medical Practice: Denial of due process, aggressive board attorney, corrupt and incompetent board staff, board is overcompensating to change its reputation for "going easy" on disciplining docs, misleading public announcements about disciplined docs with no ability for the doc to add a rebuttal like in other states, docs totally at board's capricious and often callous whims. Now thought to be the worst doc-friendly board of all which has worsened MNs shortage of docs.
The Minneapolis VA is about the worst in the nation even for a VA. Sad to say because my dad is a vet!
University of Minnesota's Department of Family Practice and Community Health is not what it once was. They forcefully push a social agenda on residents many of whom are from off-shore medical schools. Rotations can be in several locations throughout the Twin Cities so lots of driving, traffic and headaches.
Mayo generally is a good place to train but Rochester now has big city problems like lousy schools, a soaring violent crime rate and very expensive cost of living. Its not family friendly anymore.
Summer is short followed by 8-9 months of miserable, windy cold. And the car-eating snow...ugh! Southern Minnesota is one of the windiest places in the USA.
To the doc who posted that he was considering residency U of MN or a place in Nevada: go the NV! Save yourself and your career friend!
