Many of you may not know this but Hopkins has lost about 15 faculty over the last year and they have not replaced them. They have just implemented a new pay system for their faculty but this is going to take some time to recover from this. Keep in mind that the people who are going to pay for this is us. We will end up doing the extra work and I found this out when I was there. Didn't you all find it odd that this program has to do many of their rotations outside the institution? Does anyone have thoughts on Mitmman? This is my two cents: I think Hopkins is at one of its lowest levels and is relying on its name at this point. They don't have enough attendings to do the work or to teach us. Baltimore is average at best and we will be doing so many rotations outside of the hopital. Did anyone look at where their graduates ended up last year? It was not impressive.
Hopkins has lost 15 faculty over the last year
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Once you graduate from there that name will take you everywhere you ever wanted to go.
However I do feel your pain. Someday you are gonna land your dream job because your resume says JHU (and ya worked your friggen tail off). Then you can put the whole messy mexperience behind you.
However I do feel your pain. Someday you are gonna land your dream job because your resume says JHU (and ya worked your friggen tail off). Then you can put the whole messy mexperience behind you.
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Why are they doing rotations outside the hospital? Don't they have enough cases? How did you know they did not hire any new faculty? I was told they they normally lose 10 of their faculty each year to better positions, so why is five more so bad?
What does the rest of the forum think? I was told by one of my interviewers to beware of these situations because the residents are the ones that suffer.
What does the rest of the forum think? I was told by one of my interviewers to beware of these situations because the residents are the ones that suffer.
Knowing a few Hopkins residents, they all report that it hasn't been a factor at all. They feel they don't work nearly as hard as some of their counterparts in Boston. They do go to a few outside rotations, but pretty much on an elective basis. For example, they do regional training up at HSS in New York which supposedly is sweet as Hopkins provides the apartment and they get to hang out in NYC for a month w/o call. They are all pretty happy and are getting jobs or fellowships wherever they want. Do you really think a private group really thinks JHU is a lesser school w/o a few faculty members and a new program director? I think not.
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as a Hopkins resident, I can understand the concerns from potential residents. Hopkins has lost faculty, some to become Chairmen at other institutions, some to other faculty positions and some to private practice. I believe that this is common everywhere but certainly present here. One of the previous posters stated that "we" the residents will be forced to do more work. This really isn't true b/c you need an attending to supervise you. Dr. Ulatowski (the interim) chair is still negotiating and this creates a sense of uneasiness for potential faculty. However, there have been at least 3 new attendings hired who are equally as good if not better than the average Hopkins attending. They are also in the process of hiring more CRNAs. There role will be to staff less educationally valuable cases.
As for outside rotations, yes this could also be concerning to many. You do have a chance to go to HSS to work on some regional. All of you who have interviewed at Hopkins were likely told that cardiac cases were not plentiful. Well, this is probably true across the board. We also don't have an abundance of vascular cases and some residents go to another local hospital to get more OB. Hopkins is in a state of flux right now, but I am very happy to be here. The complexity of the patients coupled with attendings who will let you try different anesthesia techniques makes this place stand out. But I have always said that the top programs give you great training, and you need to take each place as a whole, education, living, family. Good luck in the match, hope to meet some of you in a year.
As for outside rotations, yes this could also be concerning to many. You do have a chance to go to HSS to work on some regional. All of you who have interviewed at Hopkins were likely told that cardiac cases were not plentiful. Well, this is probably true across the board. We also don't have an abundance of vascular cases and some residents go to another local hospital to get more OB. Hopkins is in a state of flux right now, but I am very happy to be here. The complexity of the patients coupled with attendings who will let you try different anesthesia techniques makes this place stand out. But I have always said that the top programs give you great training, and you need to take each place as a whole, education, living, family. Good luck in the match, hope to meet some of you in a year.
