NYC programs

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Can anyone tell me about the NYC programs (esp Mt. Sinai and NYU)? I was able to schedule Columbia and Cornell a few days apart, but I was wondering if NYU and Mt. Sinai would be worth it to make the two extra trips? Thanks! 🙂
 
drmcdreamy said:
Can anyone tell me about the NYC programs (esp Mt. Sinai and NYU)? I was able to schedule Columbia and Cornell a few days apart, but I was wondering if NYU and Mt. Sinai would be worth it to make the two extra trips? Thanks! 🙂
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Do a search on the board for NYU and Sinai for more info (or just look up "new york programs"). This has definitely been covered in the past year. Sinai would be worth a return trip, particularly if you could squeeze NYU in as well.
 
Hey,

Seems you've fallen into the "name brand" trap, which is perfectly reasonable. I think all of the NYC programs will train you well and get you any fellowship (and I'm sure people have different opinions on this matter, but I think they are just nit-picking amongst details). If anything cornell and columbia don't treat their residents as nice, but I suppose mt. sinai and nyu don't have that ivy league status. I'm sure people will say that for an academic career go to columbia or cornell, but I personally don't buy into that belief either. So if you crave "name" recognition, then I would not make a return trip because you would just be wasting money and time
 
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ABCsMan said:
Hey,

Seems you've fallen into the "name brand" trap, which is perfectly reasonable. I think all of the NYC programs will train you well and get you any fellowship (and I'm sure people have different opinions on this matter, but I think they are just nit-picking amongst details). If anything cornell and columbia don't treat their residents as nice, but I suppose mt. sinai and nyu don't have that ivy league status. I'm sure people will say that for an academic career go to columbia or cornell, but I personally don't buy into that belief either. So if you crave "name" recognition, then I would not make a return trip because you would just be wasting money and time
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What are you specifically referring to when you say Columbia doesn't treat it's residents well?
 
Hey powermd,

Though I have no personal experience with columbia, I was able to do an elective at cornell and had a classmate of mine do an elective at columbia. Both of us agreed that the resident attending relationship wasn't the best in terms of being as cordial/friendly as other places (not true of all attendings of course), residents were overworked (of course that's my opinion based on my classmate's experience and what I heard from residents during the interview trial . I know everyone has a different view on what it means to be "overworked"), very little OR teaching because attendings were rarely in the OR. These are all of course my opinions.

I believe that since an anesthesia resident spends most of their time in the OR that the OR is where attendings should stay to teach (at least more than the 10 minutes they usually spend for a 2-3hour case) and develop good,friendly, cordial relationships with their residents. If anything, doctors should be interested in treating and educating their own a little better than just a CRNA
 
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