This is the general idea I got
-definitely not cush but not awful either. The hard months are hard (cmon it's a county hospital) but the easy months are cake (a TY mentioned she worked like 10-15 hrs a week on derm)
- more surgery months (1 trauma required, 3 electives) than most TY's but less medicine months and the subspecialty surg months aren't terrible
-residents were happy because of location and half their year is easy.
Not the easiest TY by any stretch but probably one of the best if you need to be in LA (the only TY in LA county and only a few prelim meds in LA can compete with it - Huntington Memorial, Kaiser LA)
I did my TY there a few years ago and it was surprisingly very cush. It was truly the best year of my life and while I didn't work hard at all, I learned quite a bit. It looks like things may have changed slightly (We did 1 month of IM and 1 month of CCU, and we did trauma + a surgical selective for our surg requirement), but still look very reasonable.
As far as rotations,
Derm, Anesthesia, Radiology=vacation. (I'm serious--you don't even have to show up for anesthesia or rads. Derm is a few 1/2 days a week, and actually the attendings are very nice and let you do biopsies and other cool things).
Psych ER was freaking awesome and was only 40 hours a week M-F. I would highly recomend this rotation to everyone...definitely my favorite block of the year.
ER was shift work (about 40 hours a week) and very fair. And you can do this twice as part of your required ER rotation and your 5 elective rotations.
Outpt medicine clinic (40 hours a week M-F). Outpatient peds clinic is even easier if that's still available.
Peds ER: again shift work, 40 hours a week. Very reasonable.
So that's already 8 40 hour or less a week rotations with no call.
IM sucks. It's horrible at Harbor. I hated every second of it, even 1 month of it. I see that you now have to do 2 month of IM vs what I did (1 month of CCU + 1 month of IM). That ain't necessarily a bad thing, though. CCU hours were better, but you shat your pants on call nights when you were the only one in the CCU and alarms were going off everywhere.
All in all, I think the program is awesome. The program director is one of the coolest guys alive btw, and you can work as little or as much as you want. If you want the easy track, see above. If you want to scrub in on surgeries, do ICU rotations, etc. those options are also available to you.
