"To base the 'quality' of ALL our residents at our program on one's impression of his local country's politics should be taken with a grain of salt. "
Country's politics??????
To put things simply: I saw some medical schools on the list that are presumed to be really "bad" in India because of their reputation; no questions asked about their reputation. Not that there is anything wrong with them
I did see one name from All India Institute < but dont know anything beyond that.
But this does make me wonder about resident selection at CCF. Who knows how they are selecting.................
Another thing: why does CCF take IMGs only on prematches??
Check up their numbers on NRMP( have gone down drastically).
There are two ways to look at this:
1 Either the quality of AMGs they are getting is not "top notch"(considering that they are a "top notch hospital"). As a program director it makes sense to think that he ( the PD)cannot fill his program with crappy residents ( to make sure that things get done in the hospital). But I also know that the many IMGs in CCF are not "awesome ": so I am confused. But I am sure that there are good residents among AMGs and IMGs there.
OR
2.CCF is not sure if it will fill in the match: and if they go unfilled their reputation comes down. I think that they offered close to 12 or 13 prematches this year.
BTW this whole exchange has been interesting in terms of how a programs reputation comes crashing down if they take a lot of IMGs.
I have seen IMGs at some "lesser known" US university programs ( that are not as highly ranked as hospitals on US news): but their residents were "
really good" on Morning report.
May be I am biased against CCF as I felt almost pressured to take the offer. My main reason for not accepting this position was that I had other calls ( better ones) and I was not impressed with their fellwoship match list ( not being a snot here
)
BTW which year of his residency did the guy who is cards at UAB match ?? ( if I remember correctly he had to do an MPH to boost his stats)
I am deeply sorry if I have offended any CCF resident's self-esteem here.
Peace.