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ED Facility: Community program, very nice hospital, large and clean and updated ED with very few beds in hallway. Six trauma bays, brand new Peds ED opening for our year at Arnold Palmer. Everything computerized including PACS except medication orders.
Location: Orlando seemed fun but not great most residents only hang out downtown. A lot of chain restaurants and bars, not tons of character but pretty, nice, new, fun, and young. Weather was beautiful.
Status within Institution: EM seems to be the strongest residency at ORMC. I heard bad things about the Internal Medicine program. Trauma and ortho seem to be slightly stronger. EM does all of the airways in traumas. EM does FAST scans. Chest tubes are technically trauma, but theres so much trauma that they get sick of them and pass them over regularly.
Pediatric Experience: Brand new peds ED at Arnold Palmer, seems to be one of the strengths of the program.
Trauma Experience: Residents all report tons of trauma and tons of sick patients in Orlando. This does not seem to be a downside to the program at all.
Ultrasound: Appears to have been weak in the past, but the program just hired three brand new US trained attendings and plans to start a fellowship in the future.
Off Service Rotations: Seem relatively weak. Trauma (two months) is supposed to be the toughest. Trauma call is oddly scheduled (about 7 per month, but irregular). There are at least 5 call months first year. ICU months are getting better but still not a strength of the program with the exception of the CCU month in Jacksonville which everybody seemed to love. There is a ton of procedures and autonomy during the Jacksonville month, but its pretty scary.
Residents: young, single, partiers. All VERY very happy. Lots of then seem to live in the same place called the Grant; it sort of reminded me of college the way they all live together and party together. Not sure how great of a program it would be for people with families.
Didactic Time: Presentations were a little weak. Apparently some of the new attendings are more EBM/research-oriented so maybe things will improve in this arena. This might be worth looking into some more because right now this is one of the major weaknesses of the program that I saw. About 15% of residents go into academics.
Number of Hours per Shift: 12 (adult), 10-10.5 (peds)
EMS Experience: PD is an EMS guys, so this experience seems to be pretty good.
Injury Prevention: there are a few disaster training exercises at the airport, but doesnt seem like theres a lot of public health type stuff going on in this program.
Orientation: 1 week (I think ). Program starts in July (later than others).
Special Features:
4 wks/yr of vacation
Benefits seem great (health, dental, vision, matched 403b contributions)
Good food in cafeteria, always free (not just on call)
1 teaching month as a PGY-3
2 elective months 3rd year, seem very flexible (can do pretty much anything, including a month in Hawaii that you have to sign up for pretty early); also in SE Asia, Africa, research month, clinic in the Dominican Republic
Scholarly project required, can be research, case study, CPC competition, book chapter, or own project
½ hour lunch break every shift
Conference 2 days/wk, T/R, protected time
Journal club during T/R time, night lectures monthly at attendings houses on interesting topics including finances, absinthe, etc.
SAEM conference paid as PGY-3s
Paid ACEP dues and Annals of EM subscription
Location: Orlando seemed fun but not great most residents only hang out downtown. A lot of chain restaurants and bars, not tons of character but pretty, nice, new, fun, and young. Weather was beautiful.
Status within Institution: EM seems to be the strongest residency at ORMC. I heard bad things about the Internal Medicine program. Trauma and ortho seem to be slightly stronger. EM does all of the airways in traumas. EM does FAST scans. Chest tubes are technically trauma, but theres so much trauma that they get sick of them and pass them over regularly.
Pediatric Experience: Brand new peds ED at Arnold Palmer, seems to be one of the strengths of the program.
Trauma Experience: Residents all report tons of trauma and tons of sick patients in Orlando. This does not seem to be a downside to the program at all.
Ultrasound: Appears to have been weak in the past, but the program just hired three brand new US trained attendings and plans to start a fellowship in the future.
Off Service Rotations: Seem relatively weak. Trauma (two months) is supposed to be the toughest. Trauma call is oddly scheduled (about 7 per month, but irregular). There are at least 5 call months first year. ICU months are getting better but still not a strength of the program with the exception of the CCU month in Jacksonville which everybody seemed to love. There is a ton of procedures and autonomy during the Jacksonville month, but its pretty scary.
Residents: young, single, partiers. All VERY very happy. Lots of then seem to live in the same place called the Grant; it sort of reminded me of college the way they all live together and party together. Not sure how great of a program it would be for people with families.
Didactic Time: Presentations were a little weak. Apparently some of the new attendings are more EBM/research-oriented so maybe things will improve in this arena. This might be worth looking into some more because right now this is one of the major weaknesses of the program that I saw. About 15% of residents go into academics.
Number of Hours per Shift: 12 (adult), 10-10.5 (peds)
EMS Experience: PD is an EMS guys, so this experience seems to be pretty good.
Injury Prevention: there are a few disaster training exercises at the airport, but doesnt seem like theres a lot of public health type stuff going on in this program.
Orientation: 1 week (I think ). Program starts in July (later than others).
Special Features:
4 wks/yr of vacation
Benefits seem great (health, dental, vision, matched 403b contributions)
Good food in cafeteria, always free (not just on call)
1 teaching month as a PGY-3
2 elective months 3rd year, seem very flexible (can do pretty much anything, including a month in Hawaii that you have to sign up for pretty early); also in SE Asia, Africa, research month, clinic in the Dominican Republic
Scholarly project required, can be research, case study, CPC competition, book chapter, or own project
½ hour lunch break every shift
Conference 2 days/wk, T/R, protected time
Journal club during T/R time, night lectures monthly at attendings houses on interesting topics including finances, absinthe, etc.
SAEM conference paid as PGY-3s
Paid ACEP dues and Annals of EM subscription