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Anyone know anything about the colorado program?
Thanks in advance,
Gottschalk
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Hi there.
I wasn't impressed with Colorado's program. Denver is great, but the department is small. However, they just built a new facility off-campus, and it looked nice from the plans. The building wasn't finished when I interviewed.
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I was just at Denver this week and things have changed in the last two years. The chair, although a bit rigid, has done a great job of getting lots of young, excited, new faculty to staff the beautiful new eye center they just built. They've almost doubled the clinical faculty in the last two years,
In addition, they have a busy city/county hospital and VA that you rotate to every year, they've just started putting 2nd years as primary cataract surgeons, so I would expect their total cataract numbers to rise from the current 100 mark.
They still use a lot of community staff for teaching, but that was presented as a positive factor if you want to end up practicing in Denver (an otherwise tough market to get into) since you know a lot of the local docs.
I was also pleasantly surprised to learn that you can live within 10 minutes of the three major hospitals (Denver Health, VA, and Childrens) and still be less than 20 minutes away from the new eye center in Aurora.
Overall, the department is now young, excited, and on the rise. Since Denver is such a great city to live in, I think this program will be even more competitive in the future.
In addition, they have a busy city/county hospital and VA that you rotate to every year, they've just started putting 2nd years as primary cataract surgeons, so I would expect their total cataract numbers to rise from the current 100 mark.
They still use a lot of community staff for teaching, but that was presented as a positive factor if you want to end up practicing in Denver (an otherwise tough market to get into) since you know a lot of the local docs.
I was also pleasantly surprised to learn that you can live within 10 minutes of the three major hospitals (Denver Health, VA, and Childrens) and still be less than 20 minutes away from the new eye center in Aurora.
Overall, the department is now young, excited, and on the rise. Since Denver is such a great city to live in, I think this program will be even more competitive in the future.
