GWU pathology, PGY-1 got fired?

[DrAwsome]

To me, the big danger is that the next time the LCME flatly just takes GW's accreditation away, rather than merely putting them on probation. They did this for a school in Puerto Rico. This means everybody is just SOL. Students, residents, everybody. Not like an individual department losing ACGME accreditation.

E.g., according to an article in the GW student newspaper, after 20 months GW has still not put together a selection committee to pick a new dean of medicine. See: "Search stalls for medical school dean", GWU Hatchet, August 30, 2012 at: http://www.gwhatchet.com/2012/08/30/search-stalls-for-medical-school-dean

This is already in violation of a LCME rule that such jobs not go unfilled for extended periods. If they can't get it together long enough to pick a new dean to replace the one fired because of their last probation, who knows what else is going on? This place is seriously messed up.

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[pathpower]

If GWU medical school lost its accreditation, all GWU resident programs will loss their accreditation too? Are you sure of that?

 

[sesquiculus]

FWIW. according the GW Med's wikipedia entry, in a lawsuit a fourth-year medical student claims he was kicked out of GW in his last year for complaining about harassment by an attending. Significantly, in a separate action, the DC Human Rights Commission also ruled that he had been retaliated against by the med school administrators for making the complaint. Alas, typical of how things work At GW.

 

[DermViser]

I heard 3 out of 4 PGY-1 last year either quitted or transfered away in GW pathology. And at least 3 out of 8-9 attendings are leaving this year. You really have to do some research before you apply these days, nothing is worse than trapped in a bad residency program.