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If you did, what did you like, dislike about the program?
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Where oh where is Apollyon?
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26 12-hour shifts/month as an intern, 20 12-hour shifts as upper level. crazy hours. That's the rumour. Also heard that off service is all scut. I interview there soon. The interview trail has not painted a pretty picture. Please Apollyon - say it ain't so...
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Here is my impression:
Positives:
Faculty are great-most of them are young and enthusiastic. They are pretty diverse.They recently recruited a Highland ultrasound fellow (who is really nice) so there ultrasound training should be expanding soon.
Schedule-Although they are scheduled for a lot of hours, they are excused from their shifts during conferences and journal clubs so its not as bad as it appears on paper(none of the residents seem to complain).
Off service rotations seem to be top-notch as all the residencies are very competitive. I haven't heard about alot of scut, but I didn't really ask...
Location-nice area-close to Chapel Hill (college town)and Raleigh(moderate city) and you can afford to own a home here. There is no traffic.Nice place to raise a family(good schools, nice malls,low cost of living). Lots of outdoors stuff-beautiful running trails, Duke gardens, etc.
The PD seems to really look out for her residents. One of the future PG-III was telling me how she worked everything out so that he didn't have to extend his residency when he unexpectantly needed time off for a medical emergency.All the residents I spoke to seemed happy.Because it is new the residents seem to have a lot of input into the curriculum.
Facility- The ED is OK. Nurses and RT's are great. They just built a new pysch area and are planning on expanding the ED but don't know when this will happen.
Negatives: Its a new program so the curriculum is still changing.
There are plenty of resources at Duke to do research if you want and are self directed, but most of the EM faculty are mainly clinical. Although the EM people seem fairly laid back, I don't think the other services (Surgery,Medicine,etc) are as laid back as other places-I'm sure its a great off service learning experience but may be more stressful then other places-just my impression, would suggest asking a resident though. If you are a big city person that likes to party till 5AM this is not the place to be(most things like clubs,etc close earlier then I'm use to).
Hope this helps.
Positives:
Faculty are great-most of them are young and enthusiastic. They are pretty diverse.They recently recruited a Highland ultrasound fellow (who is really nice) so there ultrasound training should be expanding soon.
Schedule-Although they are scheduled for a lot of hours, they are excused from their shifts during conferences and journal clubs so its not as bad as it appears on paper(none of the residents seem to complain).
Off service rotations seem to be top-notch as all the residencies are very competitive. I haven't heard about alot of scut, but I didn't really ask...
Location-nice area-close to Chapel Hill (college town)and Raleigh(moderate city) and you can afford to own a home here. There is no traffic.Nice place to raise a family(good schools, nice malls,low cost of living). Lots of outdoors stuff-beautiful running trails, Duke gardens, etc.
The PD seems to really look out for her residents. One of the future PG-III was telling me how she worked everything out so that he didn't have to extend his residency when he unexpectantly needed time off for a medical emergency.All the residents I spoke to seemed happy.Because it is new the residents seem to have a lot of input into the curriculum.
Facility- The ED is OK. Nurses and RT's are great. They just built a new pysch area and are planning on expanding the ED but don't know when this will happen.
Negatives: Its a new program so the curriculum is still changing.
There are plenty of resources at Duke to do research if you want and are self directed, but most of the EM faculty are mainly clinical. Although the EM people seem fairly laid back, I don't think the other services (Surgery,Medicine,etc) are as laid back as other places-I'm sure its a great off service learning experience but may be more stressful then other places-just my impression, would suggest asking a resident though. If you are a big city person that likes to party till 5AM this is not the place to be(most things like clubs,etc close earlier then I'm use to).
Hope this helps.
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Since I'm there, not interviewing there, I wanted to leave this thread to be, so I didn't cloud the waters.
As such, to say:
The shifts - I said it before, and here it is again: intern shifts are 10 hours long, and you do 22 in a 28 day block. That maths out to 2 60-hour weeks, and 2 50-hour weeks. The 10 hours is new this year; the current 2nd years did 12's last year. I prefer longer hours, and fewer shifts. If a majority of us want 12's, the PD will do it. She is VERY democratic in that regard.
Off-service - you would be VERY surprised. Every day, I comment on how happy the people here are. They're content in their positions, so they're not all angry all the time. I can't say enough about the general surgeons, or the ent's, ophtho beans, ortho, or even neurosurgery. It's not all great (met my first gunner at Duke, on my general surgery rotation), but a damn sight better than I would have had at many other places.
One good thing about the attendings is that what you see is what you get; so often, people are just WEIRD when it comes to their programs and what they do. These folks here are all sincere. The division chief IS really as nice as she seems, and the PD is just DRIVEN.
I haven't felt scutted SO much; cardiology was busy as hell, but a high turnover. I have drawn blood less than 10 times (not counting trauma sticks) this whole year. Last year (in prelim), I might have been drawing 5 times a day.
I didn't have many options, so I am always grateful for what I have, and turn a good eye to it. I'm happy here, and getting what I wanted.
Just a little bit...hope my blurb casts some light.
As such, to say:
The shifts - I said it before, and here it is again: intern shifts are 10 hours long, and you do 22 in a 28 day block. That maths out to 2 60-hour weeks, and 2 50-hour weeks. The 10 hours is new this year; the current 2nd years did 12's last year. I prefer longer hours, and fewer shifts. If a majority of us want 12's, the PD will do it. She is VERY democratic in that regard.
Off-service - you would be VERY surprised. Every day, I comment on how happy the people here are. They're content in their positions, so they're not all angry all the time. I can't say enough about the general surgeons, or the ent's, ophtho beans, ortho, or even neurosurgery. It's not all great (met my first gunner at Duke, on my general surgery rotation), but a damn sight better than I would have had at many other places.
One good thing about the attendings is that what you see is what you get; so often, people are just WEIRD when it comes to their programs and what they do. These folks here are all sincere. The division chief IS really as nice as she seems, and the PD is just DRIVEN.
I haven't felt scutted SO much; cardiology was busy as hell, but a high turnover. I have drawn blood less than 10 times (not counting trauma sticks) this whole year. Last year (in prelim), I might have been drawing 5 times a day.
I didn't have many options, so I am always grateful for what I have, and turn a good eye to it. I'm happy here, and getting what I wanted.
Just a little bit...hope my blurb casts some light.
