Help, can't think for myself!!!

[billyverdin]

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I know this is getting old but I feel desperate and the advice of strangers is all I got left! Help me out on these choices, I keep going back and forth. Maine Medical Center, small, Private Practice, lots of cases, super strong Cardiac, great faculty, weak ICU, weak Regional, great little city on the ocean with a high quality of life. I'm doing a rotation in Emergency Med and find the culture of MMC to be very cordial., Dartmouth: very well rounded comprehensive program, strong in alot of areas, great U/S regional, location is somewhat isolated, but have had friends live in the area who state that it's not as bad as it may seem....very cultured folks living side by side country folks, could be interesting, and its close to the family. U Virginia, seems like a well rounded program, more residents than MMC or Dartmouth, I wonder if there is enough good cases? They say there are, good regional, in fact I met the Dartmouth fellow who will be starting up UVA's regional U/s program and she is cool. Great climate, away from family. The Brigham: Boston, Harvard, large 90 residents, many fellows, Boston is expensive but fun, traffic sucks but lots to do, close to family (in Portland, ME) Great leadership at Brigham, good rep, good cases, weak regional....any help would be rad.
peace.

 

[Idiopathic]

Im familiar with UVA and I loved it. The only knock would be that it seems like they are good at everything but not great at anything? I dont know for sure, but that perception certainly wouldnt keep me from going to UVA and loving Charlottesville.

 

[davvid2700]

I know this is getting old but I feel desperate and the advice of strangers is all I got left! Help me out on these choices, I keep going back and forth. Maine Medical Center, small, Private Practice, lots of cases, super strong Cardiac, great faculty, weak ICU, weak Regional, great little city on the ocean with a high quality of life. I'm doing a rotation in Emergency Med and find the culture of MMC to be very cordial., Dartmouth: very well rounded comprehensive program, strong in alot of areas, great U/S regional, location is somewhat isolated, but have had friends live in the area who state that it's not as bad as it may seem....very cultured folks living side by side country folks, could be interesting, and its close to the family. U Virginia, seems like a well rounded program, more residents than MMC or Dartmouth, I wonder if there is enough good cases? They say there are, good regional, in fact I met the Dartmouth fellow who will be starting up UVA's regional U/s program and she is cool. Great climate, away from family. The Brigham: Boston, Harvard, large 90 residents, many fellows, Boston is expensive but fun, traffic sucks but lots to do, close to family (in Portland, ME) Great leadership at Brigham, good rep, good cases, weak regional....any help would be rad.
peace.

Nobody will be able to make this decision for you

but i can tell you, YOU and only YOU will make you a excellent anesthesiologist... not the program.. so go where you wanna go and Im sure you will be excellent if you want wherever you go... I went to a NO NAME PROGRAM believe me and I feel that did not hinder me at all.. at all

 

[fuzzy_wuzzy]

YOU and only YOU will make you a excellent anesthesiologist... not the program..

I totaly agree w/ above. That said, if name is important to you (i know it is to me) then go w/ the Brigham. I interviewed there and everybody seemed very nice and enthusiastic. They have great OB, peds, cardio. The drawbacks is no trauma, no liver, and an open ICU that makes you "hate doing ICU" accourding to an alumnus.
That's my take I guess. Glad to see that i'm not the only person changing my mind like 10X a day. I almost get settled on Hopkins but then I go outside to 4 deg weather and i'm like F this, UCSF here I come.
Thank god rank day is almost here.

 

[aredoubleyou]

Nobody will be able to make this decision for you

Wanna bet! Go to Dartmouth, you seem to like small towns in the Northeast and you seem to like big names - Dartmouth has a little of each.

There, decision made, stop stressing and go to bed 🙂

 

[Sugar72]

Wanna bet! Go to Dartmouth, you seem to like small towns in the Northeast and you seem to like big names - Dartmouth has a little of each.

There, decision made, stop stressing and go to bed 🙂

This could be your calling - open up a small seasonal business making the ROL for people who can't make up their mind. You could charge by the number of institutions ranked. In a few years you could branch out to different specialties and then vertical growth into the "where should I apply" market...the sky's the limit for you RW! It could be online like eharmony...you could be the Dr. Phil of NRMP.

 

[ThinkFast007]

i had a similar dilemma. relative "BIG NAME" vs community hosp.

bottom line where will YOU be happy.

NEXT, in anesthesiology it seems even the ppl at the 'big names' go into private practice. guys like JPP and MILMD on here will tell ya, in the private practice world, the residency 'name' isnt what they look for necessarily.

Although, yes, it probably sounds better to go to the brigham or the like. I made my decision to rank (i'm still a MS4) based on where I would be happy. Also based on how happy and civil the residents are to each other.

personally, i at times feel that at Univ programs residents are always trying to 'out do' others and there's that 'competitive' envirn. At private hosps it's all about getting the pt in and OUT....but you also learn anesthesiology but moreover, how to be a successful as a private practice guy.

my 2 cents

 

[rugtrousers]

Try filling out Duke's CompMatrix for anesthesiology programs. It's a bit involved, but will rank the programs that you're considering based on the attributes most important to you. You probably won't like the order of the programs it gives you (I didn't), but at least then you'll know more about what you're really thinking, i.e. if it ranks UVA #1 and you're disappointed, then you'll know that's not really your #1, and so on.

 

[aredoubleyou]

You probably won't like the order of the programs it gives you (I didn't), but at least then you'll know more about what you're really thinking, .

That sounds like a waste of time then - doesn't make sense.

What does make sense is emailing me your list with your favorite color, most hated food, and where you would live if you won the power ball $360 million and I will put your rank order list together for you for only $3 per program.

Satisfaction guaranteed