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Has anyone rotated or interviewed with the programs in the South? Not Texas programs. I've been to few. I like to know what others say about UAB, Emory, Miami, LSU, and Carolinas.
UAB: The rotation was easy. Long hours though. Residents get there at 6-6:30, some attending made resident get there at 5:30 am to round. Most teams were busy with many patients. Lot of busy work with notes. Call is inhouse 5-6 times/month. Plus residents take another call to do drug screen (collect urine) and breath alcohol tests when they do inhouse call (this was moonlighting but now mandatory without pay). Residents go home around 5-6 pm. Residents work 70-80 hours a week on inpatient.
The residents are nice and pretty cool. There seems to be a lot of unhappiiness with the administration. There was tension between residents and the leaders. Plans for residents to gain exposure to procedures and pain rotations has not worked out as promised and many residents are upset. They were told UAB was a program with a lot of procedures. Currently, residents do electives in pain, but elective is run by anesthesia and few (leftovers as described by anesthesia resident to me) procedures come to PMR resident. Since many residents are interested in interventional spine, they were upset.
There is no program director now. The previous one is now assistant dean of the medical school. It is a shared position between the Chair and the previous director. They are looking for another full time director I think. I have the impression there is no resident advocate. When I asked about the relationship between residents and attendings, most residents tried to avoid answering. Some are OK, some are bad. No outstanding teachers. There are 2 new attendings but residents have not worked with them to know. I saw instance where an attending was intimidating a resident for crazy reason. The residents seemed afraid to complain because there is no faculty to trust.
The patients on inpatient rotations more sick than I expected. The residents recommend doing an IM prelim year because you need to know medicine. Research is mandatory for all new residents. Of all the places I've seen, this one not bad but many problems, worse than others for residents. Did anyone else have this impression? I don't know if I should rank UAB. Is it like this at other places?
UAB: The rotation was easy. Long hours though. Residents get there at 6-6:30, some attending made resident get there at 5:30 am to round. Most teams were busy with many patients. Lot of busy work with notes. Call is inhouse 5-6 times/month. Plus residents take another call to do drug screen (collect urine) and breath alcohol tests when they do inhouse call (this was moonlighting but now mandatory without pay). Residents go home around 5-6 pm. Residents work 70-80 hours a week on inpatient.
The residents are nice and pretty cool. There seems to be a lot of unhappiiness with the administration. There was tension between residents and the leaders. Plans for residents to gain exposure to procedures and pain rotations has not worked out as promised and many residents are upset. They were told UAB was a program with a lot of procedures. Currently, residents do electives in pain, but elective is run by anesthesia and few (leftovers as described by anesthesia resident to me) procedures come to PMR resident. Since many residents are interested in interventional spine, they were upset.
There is no program director now. The previous one is now assistant dean of the medical school. It is a shared position between the Chair and the previous director. They are looking for another full time director I think. I have the impression there is no resident advocate. When I asked about the relationship between residents and attendings, most residents tried to avoid answering. Some are OK, some are bad. No outstanding teachers. There are 2 new attendings but residents have not worked with them to know. I saw instance where an attending was intimidating a resident for crazy reason. The residents seemed afraid to complain because there is no faculty to trust.
The patients on inpatient rotations more sick than I expected. The residents recommend doing an IM prelim year because you need to know medicine. Research is mandatory for all new residents. Of all the places I've seen, this one not bad but many problems, worse than others for residents. Did anyone else have this impression? I don't know if I should rank UAB. Is it like this at other places?
