someone mentioned st luke's hospital of bethlehem, PA...
i am a ty here now, 2 months + so far have been non-malignant.
faculty here love to teach, the dept of int med affiliated with temple U.
dept of surgery/trauma surgery was affiliated with upenn until recently? i am not sure.
many of the specialists completed fellowships at reknowned programs - columbia, brown, penn state hershey, etc. now I am on ID rotation getting a private
lecture daily since there is no senior resident on rotation, still the attending doesn't scut me and has controlled the amount of patients i am seeing each day even if he gets busy. the lack of fellowships works out nicely for the ty's since you get taught directly by attendings.
inpatient general med months (4) are extremely busy, more and more families are moving into the area of eastern pa from ny and nj daily. however, the breadth of inpatient and outpatient experience is very good. even when the services get busy, the faculty never take out their stress on the residents ( at least not that i have noticed)
some ty programs don't offer outpatient clinic. this prog does offer continuity clinic weekly no matter what rotation you are on, even for ty's so you can get good outpt experience for pm&r and step 3 too.
for do's there is continuing training and education in ostepathic manual medicine.
overall probably not the cushiest program out there, but very solid and non-malignant program. board pass rate for categoricals has been 100% for the past 7 years, and they treat you no differently than a categorical... my coat says dept of internal med resident, so no one knows unless they ask. ACLS training on-site at orientation so no course-hunting. ATLS training paid and offered on-site too if you do an ICU rotation. book money, food money, pda money... nuff said.
