HELP! Last Minute--Thoughts on UNC?

[TheImpossibleSoul]

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Thought I had my rank list set but advisor wasn't keen on UNC. Can anyone currently in the program/graduated from the program/that interviewed at the program give me any advice about what you thought of it? Do they seem solid? I'm not sure about subspecialty but interested currently in an inpatient heavy academic career serving a large and diverse patient population. Thanks in advance!

 

[Thama]

Great area to live in. Pretty diverse patient population - while Duke advertises to and attracts more of the monied white suburban population of the Triangle, UNC gets more referrals from throughout the state including some pretty impoverished areas and areas heavy in migrant workers, etc.

Clinically its a pretty evenly paced program, there's no year that residents get absolutely murdered in like pgy2 is in some places, though it's also a large public hospital and so you aren't going to get the boutique experience of certain nameless hotel cum referral center programs. It's quite stroke heavy both in terms of resident volume and well-known faculty, likely because the chair (Powers) is on any short list of most influential vascular neurologists in the world.

Nobody is going to mistake it for Partners or UCSF, but its a good program in a great place with a really good culture and group of people.