Easy(cush) TY or Prelim Programs

[ryanpj]

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Does anyone have any suggestions or knowledge of any? Specifically one that do not bust your A$$ with call. I know this is a long shot, but perhaps any with less than 60hrs a week?

 

[drusso]

Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane Washington is EXTREMELY cush...country club to say the least!

 

[ryanpj]

Is the FREIDA website misleading? It say avg hours on duty to be 60hrs. and max time on call to be 30hrs.

 

[Ligament]

St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois (just north of the Chicago border).

Probably one of the top five cush TYs in the country.

I am doing my Internship at St. Francis this year and could not ask for anything better.

 

[Acropora]

Personally, I'd recommend against a "cush" program. I did 9 months internal medicine, 3 surgery as part of a 4 year PM&R program. That education has proven invaluable. Been practicing 2 years now.

 

[Magneto1]

St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois (just north of the Chicago border).

Probably one of the top five cush TYs in the country.

I am doing my Internship at St. Francis this year and could not ask for anything better.

How does it compare to Presence Resurrection?

 

[Ligament]

How does it compare to Presence Resurrection?

I posted this in 2003, LOL!

 

[Magneto1]

I posted this in 2003, LOL!

Haha I know, you don't have to answer if you don't want to/don't remember!

 

[Ligament]

Haha I know, you don't have to answer if you don't want to/don't remember!

I honestly have no idea. I vaguely remember resurrection interns saying good things about their time there but I may be fabricating that info. So long ago. All the best!

 

[oreosandsake]

my intern year was a little too cush. i would really recommend against doing that.

 

[jonnylingo]

Tucson Medical Center TY, solid but cush experience.

 

[Jumpu]

I did a really tough IM internship, which serves me really well today as inpt rehab doc.

 

[cheesecake85]

Highly recommend against a cush TY or prelim. Inpatients are getting sicker and sicker and can crash on you much easier than the days of seeing stable hip replacement patients in inpatient rehab. If you don't know medicine well or don't know how to handle difficult cases, you'll be screwed as a PGY2 or 3 when you're the only one on the floor.

 

[sloh]

Highly recommend against a cush TY or prelim. Inpatients are getting sicker and sicker and can crash on you much easier than the days of seeing stable hip replacement patients in inpatient rehab. If you don't know medicine well or don't know how to handle difficult cases, you'll be screwed as a PGY2 or 3 when you're the only one on the floor.

I second this. Also, I'd recommend taking your prelim or TY year seriously. The patients we admit to acute inpatient rehab are quite medically complex now. I actually felt like I had to know so much medicine that I started regularly subscribing/listening to podcasts in internal medicine and EM (EMRAP) as a PGY-2. To be honest, you can actually think of acute inpatient rehab as EM triage.