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Just wondering if anyone could comment on the few programs in the New Orleans area in terms of quality, competitiveness, fellowship placement, lifestyle, etc. Muchas gracias!
peptidoglycan said:I have nothing but good things to say about Tulane. I just started intern year as a categorical resident, and I am loving my experience. The class is very diverse, but we only have American grads. Dr. Wiese, our program director, is young and enthusiastic and has devoted his life to medical education. He went to Hopkins for med school and trained at UCSF (quite the 1-2 punch, huh?), where he was chief resident and a med ed fellow. He's an amazing guy, and very innovative. We no longer have noon conference to disturb the flow of the day (so important when you're on the wards); this year we started something called Friday school. Every Friday morning, the residents hand off their pagers to the attendings and go to Friday school, and in the afternoons, the interns hand in their pagers to the residents. In Friday school we go over the core competencies and board material. We also hit on some really important stuff. The interns started out with a series of basic call night scenarios that we worked through as a group (ranging from patient falls out of bed, what do you do to ABGs and renal failure). It has a been a great bonding experience and the learning is amazing. Our call schedule is pretty nice too. As an intern, I only have 5 call months (wards (x4) are q4 and ICU (x1) is q3). All call is in-house. I also have 1 ER month (which can be a bitch from what I hear), 1 month on the HIV/TB isolation unit (like a ward month, but no call), 2 weeks of PM&R and 2 weeks of geriatrics (new RRC requirements), 2 electives, and 1 month of ambulatory. As a resident, I will take 6 months of call each year, 4 each year on the wards and the other 2 in the unit. There is at least one "cush" ward month per year as a B resident (Charity wards has 2 residents per team), which gives you a good amount of late days or days off. Fellowship placement is high (last year everyone got his/her first choice), the chief residents are truly amazing, and board passage is 100% since Wiese took over. It's an impressive place to be, and it's only getting better. We are moving the headquarters to new, nicer digs in October (no change in the hospitals, just the office and the lounge and the Friday school room), we have been increasing the size of the program (this year we had 24 categoricals (18 last year) and I believe we will get a few more next year), and we are getting more higher ranked people than ever before (i.e. we go less deep on our match list than ever before). It's a great place to be right now. If you have any questions, PM me or post on the thread and I'll be happy to answer.
peptidoglycan said:I have nothing but good things to say about Tulane. I just started intern year as a categorical resident, and I am loving my experience. The class is very diverse, but we only have American grads. Dr. Wiese, our program director, is young and enthusiastic and has devoted his life to medical education. He went to Hopkins for med school and trained at UCSF (quite the 1-2 punch, huh?), where he was chief resident and a med ed fellow. He's an amazing guy, and very innovative. We no longer have noon conference to disturb the flow of the day (so important when you're on the wards); this year we started something called Friday school. Every Friday morning, the residents hand off their pagers to the attendings and go to Friday school, and in the afternoons, the interns hand in their pagers to the residents. In Friday school we go over the core competencies and board material. We also hit on some really important stuff. The interns started out with a series of basic call night scenarios that we worked through as a group (ranging from patient falls out of bed, what do you do to ABGs and renal failure). It has a been a great bonding experience and the learning is amazing. Our call schedule is pretty nice too. As an intern, I only have 5 call months (wards (x4) are q4 and ICU (x1) is q3). All call is in-house. I also have 1 ER month (which can be a bitch from what I hear), 1 month on the HIV/TB isolation unit (like a ward month, but no call), 2 weeks of PM&R and 2 weeks of geriatrics (new RRC requirements), 2 electives, and 1 month of ambulatory. As a resident, I will take 6 months of call each year, 4 each year on the wards and the other 2 in the unit. There is at least one "cush" ward month per year as a B resident (Charity wards has 2 residents per team), which gives you a good amount of late days or days off. Fellowship placement is high (last year everyone got his/her first choice), the chief residents are truly amazing, and board passage is 100% since Wiese took over. It's an impressive place to be, and it's only getting better. We are moving the headquarters to new, nicer digs in October (no change in the hospitals, just the office and the lounge and the Friday school room), we have been increasing the size of the program (this year we had 24 categoricals (18 last year) and I believe we will get a few more next year), and we are getting more higher ranked people than ever before (i.e. we go less deep on our match list than ever before). It's a great place to be right now. If you have any questions, PM me or post on the thread and I'll be happy to answer.