- Joined
- May 24, 2003
- Messages
- 69
- Reaction score
- 0
For all us non-east coast dwellers...anyone have any good insight to the Maryland or Hopkins programs. Nothing on scutwork.com...but they both sound good. thanks for your input
Baltimore programs
- Thread starter greatdane
- Start date
- Joined
- Mar 5, 2003
- Messages
- 110
- Reaction score
- 0
This is cut from a previous post from me:
Dr. Mattu, the PD, is great and he sets the tone for the program. The new ED is very nice and there is not much scut. The lab and radiology are next to the ED so getting what you need is easy. The patient mix is mostly inner city with pretty serious pathology. You would also rotate through the VA ED and a private hospital, so you get to see a good mix. We have combined IM/EM and Peds/EM and they are some of the smartest/best teaching residents we have. Shock Trauma is great, you get to see a very methodical approach to truama and you are involved in all aspects of trauma care. On off service rotations residents are treated well. There is also an attached Peds ED with very good attendings and nurses.
They work hard at maryland with 18-21 12 hours shifts per month as interns and it only gets slightly better. The didactics are on Weds morning and are usually excellent, with some boring ones thrown in. For some people having you adult ED, peds ED and trauma experience seperate is a negative, but to me it's a chance to work with experts in each of those sides of EM and be able to focus on that. And you do get a lot of medicine at Shock Trauma as you manage patients and some blunt trauma still comes to the main ED. The residents are very laid back and fun. I plan to rank it high. Let me know if you have any other questions.
I don't know too much about Hopkins other than their residents all say they love the program and the hospital is in a bad part of Baltimore (much worse than maryland).
-P
Dr. Mattu, the PD, is great and he sets the tone for the program. The new ED is very nice and there is not much scut. The lab and radiology are next to the ED so getting what you need is easy. The patient mix is mostly inner city with pretty serious pathology. You would also rotate through the VA ED and a private hospital, so you get to see a good mix. We have combined IM/EM and Peds/EM and they are some of the smartest/best teaching residents we have. Shock Trauma is great, you get to see a very methodical approach to truama and you are involved in all aspects of trauma care. On off service rotations residents are treated well. There is also an attached Peds ED with very good attendings and nurses.
They work hard at maryland with 18-21 12 hours shifts per month as interns and it only gets slightly better. The didactics are on Weds morning and are usually excellent, with some boring ones thrown in. For some people having you adult ED, peds ED and trauma experience seperate is a negative, but to me it's a chance to work with experts in each of those sides of EM and be able to focus on that. And you do get a lot of medicine at Shock Trauma as you manage patients and some blunt trauma still comes to the main ED. The residents are very laid back and fun. I plan to rank it high. Let me know if you have any other questions.
I don't know too much about Hopkins other than their residents all say they love the program and the hospital is in a bad part of Baltimore (much worse than maryland).
-P
- Joined
- Dec 6, 2000
- Messages
- 4,226
- Reaction score
- 17
I ranked UMD #2 on my ROL. Loved it, wouldn't have felt bad at all if I matched there!
Q, DO
Q, DO
