There are definitely some good ones out there. Lehigh Valley seemed top notch, and has the advantage of being a high acuity center, I was impressed with the residents that I met while I was up in that area, but I can't say much more than that as I did not rotate there.
I do think that if you're interested in a midwestern program, you should give a good look at Freeman Health in Joplin Mo, Integris Southwest in OKC, and OSU-Tulsa Regional in Tulsa.
The Freeman health system is downright impressive for being in a community of 45,000, but they service an area of close to 500,000 and they have a high acuity level 2 hospital which is one of my favorite hospitals that I've been in, including Lehigh-Mullenberg.
Then there is Southwest, which is a good program, they don't have quite the high level as they are on a rotating level 2 system, so they farm out their trauma months at OU's level 1 in OKC, but they do get a fair bit of gun/knife wounds and plenty of your bread/butter EM visits as they run about 75,000 visits a year. Add in their top notch diadactics and lectures, and you've got a good program.
Then there is Tulsa, they're going through some attending changes, but most of the new attendings came from the group that run's and/or graduated from the Southwest program, so again, their didactics were strong to begin with, but I feel like the weekly cases that they do and just the particular attendings that they brought in will push the program even more, then add in that TRMC's programs are now owned by the state and that there is a huge push to bring TRMC back up to a level 2 if not a level 1 hospital, so this is the program of the 3 which probably has the most potential to surpass the others in the next couple of years in acuity and level of care that they handle.
