LSU-NO General Surgery

[BigBrother]

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Can anyone give me input on life as a GS resident at LSU-NO. Im interested in the program but worried about not staying in the same city for the next 5 years.

 

[slingblade]

This is a good program. We have a lot of cases, great staff, and lots of freedom to operate and make decisions on a lot of our rotations. There are first and second years with a few hundred cases each year (meaning us upper levels taking them through it with staff in another room many times) People get the fellowships they want most of the time. I am almost done here and seriously questioned the moving, but it's an inconvience, not painfull. When we are out of town, we hang out with each other. The benifets of the program far outway the schedule of me going out of town and being away from my wife. Hours are not a problem, and we usually have everyother weekend off. You will learn to be a great surgeon coming here. I would pick it again. Come here and do a rotation at Earl K. Long in Baton Rouge, and talk to the residents during your interview. Residency is tough, and nowhere is perfect. But this is a really good program. 95% of staff are benign. We have a staff who owns a full sized canon which shoots concrete filled coffee cans, and two journal clubs ago we went to a fishing camp of another and he made us fried chicken.
Surgery, chicken, arterillary- you wont find that anywhere else!