Our CA-3 class this year

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I concur though one year there was an otherwise nice attending who made the comment that the residents might look more professional if they didn't skateboard to m+m in flip flops.

I was there way before Peter or Saltydog. It was a great program then and I have heard it has only gotten better since. Well loved and respected chair and PD. Great regional and echo training. Faculty, residents, crna's are all there because they want to be there and that makes a huge difference.

Where is this magical place you speak of? Nothing like my residency.

 

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Where is this magical place you speak of? Nothing like my residency.

Southernmost program on the West Coast. I have no idea what their ca3 class is doing this year though.

As an aside the aforementioned attending who didn't like flip flops was editor-in-chief of Anesthesiology at the time and would host residents at his home for Journal Club.

 

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Thank you. My point for future residents and fellows is that "ambiance" is paramount.

Candidates should listen to their guts. If the chair or PD doesn't click, the program will suck for you. If the interviewers are not nice even on the day they are selling the program to you, imagine what will happen once you are hired. If the trainees are not truly enthusiastic, just smiling salespeople, there is something rotten in Denmark.

A brand name matters a lot, but so does great training. If you feel miserable for 3 years, you will not get the best training you could even in a "top" place. If you get labeled, you'll have a long way to dig yourself out, too long for residency. Don't go anywhere just because you were told it's a great program, if it didn't "click" with you. The cultural fit is the most important, especially if you are different in any way from their typical trainee (especially if a minority). Never underestimate the importance of working with nice laid-back people. The training is close second, but second. The brand name is third (it does matter, but nothing beats your own expertise, which comes from happiness + good training).

There aren't many programs in Neverland, but keep searching. Don't just settle for the big name with big snobs; 3 years in prison residency can be a long sentence, 😉

This is how you should feel when going to work:

 

[Psai]

Thank you. My point for future residents and fellows is that "ambiance" is paramount.

Candidates should listen to their guts. If the chair or PD doesn't click, the program will suck for you. If the interviewers are not nice even on the day they are selling the program to you, imagine what will happen once you are hired. If the trainees are not truly enthusiastic, just smiling salespeople, there is something rotten in Denmark.

A brand name matters a lot, but so does great training. If you feel miserable for 3 years, you will not get the best training you could even in a "top" place. If you get labeled, you'll have a long way to dig yourself out, too long for residency. Don't go anywhere just because you were told it's a great program, if it didn't "click" with you. The cultural fit is the most important, especially if you are different in any way from their typical trainee (especially if a minority). Never underestimate the importance of working with nice laid-back people. The training is close second, but second. The brand name is third (it does matter, but nothing beats your own expertise, which comes from happiness + good training).

There aren't many programs in Neverland, but keep searching. Don't just settle for the big name with big snobs; 3 years in prison residency can be a long sentence, 😉

This is how you should feel when going to work:

I asked a lot of people and this is the exact advice I got last year and now I know how true it is. I got a little blinded by all the fancy names during the interview season but I'm really glad that I matched somewhere where the people are awesome.

 

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I love you FFP!!! Not afraid to call a spade a spade. And friggin hilarious while you do it.

The it easy Choco. Not every program is a miserable S-hole in the desert. If I'm not mistaken, some of your co-residents rotated with us for cardiac. Ask them what they thought. What nimbus and I are saying is true. I'm sorry you had a sh*tty residency experience, but don't believe for a second that everyone's life must be as bad as yours.

 

[chocomorsel]

The it easy Choco. Not every program is a miserable S-hole in the desert. If I'm not mistaken, some of your co-residents rotated with us for cardiac. Ask them what they thought. What nimbus and I are saying is true. I'm sorry you had a sh*tty residency experience, but don't believe for a second that everyone's life must be as bad as yours.

My residency was miserable. Not my life. And I suspect the residency is better now since that bitch PD is not the PD anymore. She came on board two years into my training and turned my life upside down and the place into a hell hole.

I am glad not everyone had a ****ty experience in residency. That's a good thing.

 

[chocomorsel]

Thank you. My point for future residents and fellows is that "ambiance" is paramount.

Candidates should listen to their guts. If the chair or PD doesn't click, the program will suck for you. If the interviewers are not nice even on the day they are selling the program to you, imagine what will happen once you are hired. If the trainees are not truly enthusiastic, just smiling salespeople, there is something rotten in Denmark.

A brand name matters a lot, but so does great training. If you feel miserable for 3 years, you will not get the best training you could even in a "top" place. If you get labeled, you'll have a long way to dig yourself out, too long for residency. Don't go anywhere just because you were told it's a great program, if it didn't "click" with you. The cultural fit is the most important, especially if you are different in any way from their typical trainee (especially if a minority). Never underestimate the importance of working with nice laid-back people. The training is close second, but second. The brand name is third (it does matter, but nothing beats your own expertise, which comes from happiness + good training).

There aren't many programs in Neverland, but keep searching. Don't just settle for the big name with big snobs; 3 years in prison residency can be a long sentence, 😉

This is how you should feel when going to work:

Great advice. As a minority, it's always good to put yourself in a position sorrounded by other people who look like you. It really helps. Shows an open mindedness in the faculty and department. I was the third black woman in that program ever. Same goes for foreigners and foreign trained people.

I learned that the hard way. Thought everything was hunky dory, full of puppies, ice cream and cotton candy. Boy was I naive.