Any current residents feel similarly or differently?
Originally Posted by giorbust
You don't want to go to Cornell either.
The program director only cares about ACGME requirements, yet refuses to fix several highly dangerous rotations for patients (mainly the CCU), while other services are supersaturated. She refuses to listen to residents and their concerns. Ultimately, the hospital will be sued for malpractice and things will change.
Internship is an extension of medical school now. The program leadership seems to think it is dangerous for interns to make ANY decisions. You will do more call as a PGY-2/PGY-3. The residents do nearly all admissions. On nightfloat, there are two residents admitting every patient to the general medicine service, while the interns are capped at 1 admission each per night (3 interns total).
Our outpatient clinic is atrocious. We have to take our own vitals, do our own EKG's, etc (there are zero ancillary services for residents) - even Bellevue has ancillary services for their residents. Patients are allowed to show up at any time no matter what time their appointment was and we are still required to see them. They cram as many patients on to your schedule as they possibly can. In nearly two years, I've learned next to nothing about outpatient medicine because I spend the majority of my time filling out paperwork (once again, because we have no staff to help us).
Cornell will hopefully get me into the fellowship that I want, but I think there are a lot of places that would accomplish the same goal.
Do yourself a favor - avoid Columbia and Cornell all together for internal medicine.
Originally Posted by giorbust
You don't want to go to Cornell either.
The program director only cares about ACGME requirements, yet refuses to fix several highly dangerous rotations for patients (mainly the CCU), while other services are supersaturated. She refuses to listen to residents and their concerns. Ultimately, the hospital will be sued for malpractice and things will change.
Internship is an extension of medical school now. The program leadership seems to think it is dangerous for interns to make ANY decisions. You will do more call as a PGY-2/PGY-3. The residents do nearly all admissions. On nightfloat, there are two residents admitting every patient to the general medicine service, while the interns are capped at 1 admission each per night (3 interns total).
Our outpatient clinic is atrocious. We have to take our own vitals, do our own EKG's, etc (there are zero ancillary services for residents) - even Bellevue has ancillary services for their residents. Patients are allowed to show up at any time no matter what time their appointment was and we are still required to see them. They cram as many patients on to your schedule as they possibly can. In nearly two years, I've learned next to nothing about outpatient medicine because I spend the majority of my time filling out paperwork (once again, because we have no staff to help us).
Cornell will hopefully get me into the fellowship that I want, but I think there are a lot of places that would accomplish the same goal.
Do yourself a favor - avoid Columbia and Cornell all together for internal medicine.