Chief Resident?

[bhop]

Why would someone want to be chief resident?

 

[gutonc]

Why would someone want to be chief resident?

Why do you think someone might want to be Chief Resident?

I mean besides the money, power and chicks of course.

 

[Rumit]

Why do you think someone might want to be Chief Resident?

I mean besides the money, power and chicks of course.

Coke? Is it all the coke?

 

[Top Gun]

Why would someone want to be chief resident?

Prestige, and it looks good on a fellowship application.

 

[gutonc]

Coke? Is it all the coke?

We have a winner. When in doubt, the answer is always "hookers and blow."

 

[BolderNewfy]

In order of importance;

The yeyo....
the bit***s
the fame
the glory
couldnt get in to a fellowship and am desperately trying to avoid that horrendous hospitalist(or primary care) gig and so took position of chief resident as a final act of desperation.....

 

[Arcan57]

Why would someone want to be chief resident?

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the interns.

 

[Socrates25]

Being a chief is semi-prestigious in the worlds of IM, peds, family medicine because you get "selected" from a larger group of people.

For the surgical world, there is no prestige because everybody in their last year is a "chief"

For the primary care residencies, good reasons to be a chief are to get an advantage to joining the university as a faculty member, having an extra year to do research, strengthen up a fellowship application, etc

 

[oldbearprofessor]

Can be helpful if one is a year "off cycle" from a significant other or spouse. See this in pedi a good bit.

In some programs, agreeing to be chief adds a lot to the likelihood of matching at that place in the fellowship of choice.

 

[Groove]

Why would someone want to be chief resident?

Because there's always a "sucker" to be found in any class...