I can only tell you my impressions from interviewing there... it is a very scary area of the country -- felt rather uncomfortable once off the freeway (worse than Detroit). The facilities there are cramped -- patient beds are smooshed together so that when you're talking to one patient you're 2 feet from the next. Also, the trauma center is separate from the main ED -- you only get trauma experience when on the trauma service. Plus, it seems that when you're on trauma your main responsibility is still just the airway. Last, the off service rotations are, per the residents I talked to, quite low yield. However, you probably do get a lot of autonomy and you will likely see all kinds of cool pathology. The program does have this cool setup of connected resident apts with assoc. gym. Anyhow, I think location / funds / off-service rotations are the detractors.
