reposting from my most recent post on the hopkins vs. mgh thread
most will not be able to give you specific advice when it comes to four different programs other than what they learned on their interview days. some can compare two because they've worked in both places. So you're probably going to get a bunch of "i love penn because" "i love uw because" etc. so here's my "i love hopkins because"--
The didactics are really fantastic. As an attending now, every other thursday I am either solo in the OR with a ton of my other attending colleagues so the residents can go to college day or I am teaching at college day. The last college day i was a part of the residents rotated through 7 one hour sessions which included multiple high fidelity simulations, airway management workshops, straight up didactics for the board prep, and hands on workshops (i.e. IO placement with EZ-IO and manual with didactics on who what where when why). Every other Thursday. i'm jealous.
The opportunities for research are limitless and the mentorship is well established. Residents have opportunities to start and finish scholarly activity projects to get their feet wet during their training. nice mix of marrieds, singles, kids, no kids, etc.-- very collegial resident groups. workdays are very reasonable and no 24 hour calls. as an anesthesia resident you can get your icu requirement done in a combination any of the SICUs, Neuro CCU or Peds ICU. Great peds exposure, you'll probably do more peds cardiac then you ever wanted to Much of my best learning was saturday night trauma-rama- shock trauma is definitely not the only show in town.
..and any other case you can imagine.
