It never does. But like herpes or a JAMA subscription, you can't stop it, only hope to contain it.
Sigh, Im sure this will go well.
good one on the nephro, we all know real docs do cards or GI (yes thats what I want to do), there are no other specialities
Nah...I'm just gonna completely bomb this thread all season long. But I'll make sure the advice alternates randomly between completely serious and complete bulls**t.you never know what kind of advice you'll get....maybe gutonc had an MGH PC look at him funny 15 years ago so he'll tell everyone to rank it dead last below SUNY downstate
None of the above. I heard Downstate has the best nephro fellowship match.
Durham is awesome. Best mid-sized city I've ever lived in. Unless you have a serious case of urban ADD and can't live anywhere without at least 20 nightclubs per square mile then you won't run out of things to do.
They happen every year and inevitably descend into chaos with the final recommendation always being "rank them the way you liked them". So, ipso facto, they're stupid. It's bad enough that people use the advice of random people on the internet to help decide where to apply, but using those same *****s (myself very much included) to help you make a decision about where to spend the next 3 years (and possibly set up or destroy your career)...that's nuts.
It seems like Mount Sinai doesnt have a lot of the issues that are present at cornell, columbia, nyu, thats why I'm ranking it higher.
Thats what I keep hearing..but I walked around the downtown durham area and I gotta say it leaves a lot to be desired, but I mean I'm sure I missed a lot of the area. But I mean if everyone says its awesome I guess it is. What are some of the things you liked about living there anyway?
Back in the day, I liked MSSM much better than the other NYC programs...it was my #2.
Durham isn't really a walking town. There's no pretty centralized riverfront district to catch the eye. The downtown area was a dump 10 years ago and has recently rebounded to be a legit place to go out, but still isn't really the center of anything. Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill all kind of exist in pods accessible by car. In each one, such as Durham's American Tobacco Campus or Brightleaf Square, Raleigh's Warehouse District or Glenwood South, or Franklin Street in CH, you can walk around and there is quite a bit to do. The nice thing about those areas, though, is that as a resident you can actually afford to do pretty much everything. In a place like NYC/SF/LA you have tons to do around you and yet a massive portion of it is completely unattainable on a resident salary unless you had a previous career in investment banking. In the Triangle, you have a pretty reasonable disposable income thanks to modest rents and then you can go to a baseball game for 10 bucks or get a nice meal for 2 for 40-50. You've got multiple large theaters and small venues, tons of ethnic food, decent sports (though not as much for the pro fan), a lot of live music, tons of parks and proximity to hiking/mountains/beach/outdoors and a huge community of educated young professionals that are here working in hospitals, biotech, telecom/IT research, pharma startups, etc. It's a fantastic area to live in and a completely uninteresting place for tourists, which is what you kind of end up being in one day when you're somewhere for a residency interview.
Generally a fan of MSSM, but I'd keep in mind they've had a lot of turnover in the program director's role recently. I would speak to some of the current residents and get their sense of how they like the current PD.
In addition to what you mentioned, pittsburgh is a better place to live than Ann Arbor. But, you can't go wrong with either. So, you may as well flip a coin if location is not BIG on your list. Just my (a fellow applicant) $0.02.
