Advantage of post-doc programs?

[harjay]

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Alot of schools that have specialty programs tend to flaunt it, or advertise it as an advantage to going to their school. A rep from Pacific a couple weeks ago explained how having only 2 post-doc programs allowed the students to complete a wider range of complex procedures by themselves. For schools that have a lot of specialties, I have a slight concern that difficult cases will be referred out to the specialty programs.

Any thoughts on this? If I don't plan to specialize, what do you see as the benefits/downsides to a school that has specialties?

 

[denticus]

Alot of schools that have specialty programs tend to flaunt it, or advertise it as an advantage to going to their school. A rep from Pacific a couple weeks ago explained how having limited specialty programs allowed the students to complete a wider range of complex procedures by themselves. I have a slight concern that difficult cases will be referred out to the specialty programs.

Any thoughts on this? If I don't plan to specialize, what do you see as the benefits/downsides to a school that has specialties?

Well, I know that Creighton has no specialty program and that the students actually do work on the patients requiring "complex procedures." They don't refer them out simply because if the students don't know how to carry out the procedure, someone there will. UoP is weird though so I really don't know what they do. I would just take their word for it.