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These are some common complaints among CCF Gas Residents. These are opinions, nothing more. Take it or leave it. Hope it helps you.
FORCED REXING: Residents are forced to Moonlight at CCF. The Program Director claims the REX program (paid Resident Experience Program) is voluntary. When you mention Mandatory Moonlighting OR Forced Rexing he will tell you that you can stay and work as a resident under the 80 hour/week ACGME mandate or you can VOLUNTEER to get paid for the time you are here. Either way you are going to stay and work. If people complain, he threatens to keep the moonlighting pay and work residents into the ground.
Residents are a slave work force: This is Anesthesia, not Surgery, but Residents relieve CRNAs and SRNAs in the OR, so they can leave on time. Contract this with the MANY, MANY, MANY programs that use CRNAs to get Residents out of the OR on a daily basis to provide reading time to residents.
Resident Physicians supervised by Nurses at CCF: You are directly supervised by an RN and a LPN in the PACE clinic. They reprimand you, nag you about productivity, and find any reason to scold you if you tolerate it they even try to tell you when you can go to lunch and monitor your lunch breaks down to the minute. They offer NO EDUCATIONAL VALUE to Physicians training it is just easier for the Residency to have Nurses in charge of you, because the Anesthesia Staff Physicians dont want to be involved.
CRNA/SRNA get Case Preference: Many times on big important rotations like Neuro, Vascular, ENT, and Cardiac you will be assigned to trivial cases while SRNAs and CRNAs are given the best learning cases. Expect to get an AV fistula while the SRNA gets the open AAA, the Control Desk says This is a CRNA training program too. There is a large and profitable CRNA presence here at CCF. These Nurses are treated as royalty. Residents ALWAYS relieve Nurses in the ORs, so they can go home and Residents finish the cases. Often the Nurses leaving at 3:30 PM go home while Residents are left in ORs without getting a break or lunch that day. Look for a better residency program that gives preference to Physicians in Training and not Nurses.
Pro-CRNA Program Director: Most of his very limited OR time is spent supervising CRNAs, 2 at a time, instead of teaching Residents CCF is a RESIDENT TRAINING PROGRAM, so why does the Program Director work with Nurses over Residents. He is not alone, the immediate-past-Chair of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia ONLY works with Nurses and will never allow a resident in his OR. Find a better program where the Physicians will work with the Resident Physicians preferentially and not the Nurses.
Patients often refuse Resident Care at CCF: On the OB rotation RNs have an adversarial relationship with residents. Nurses talk patients out of Resident care and into only allowing Attendings to perform epidurals and spinals. This occurs 20-25% of the time, which sadly is a big improvement since efforts have been made to correct the problem.
Residents work for CRNAs: Huron Hospital is the realm of the CRNA. The attendings there tell residents to do whatever the CRNAs say. The attendings are private practice minded, not Acedemics. They tolerate residents because the must and allow CRNAs to run the show because it is profitable and the Attendings are lazy.
MALIGNANT: The Program Administrator is an unstable, unpredictable, and malignant person. She demands complete obedience then she berates, humiliates, and degrades Physicians at the Resident and Staff level openly and has never received even a word of caution from the Program Director. She has forced Residents into LOAs at least twice this year and caused one Resident to quit Anesthesia all together. She expects, even demands respect. She will tell you how much power she has, threatens to lose your paperwork for vacation, reimbursements, etc and GIVES ABSOLUTELY NO RESPECT WHAT SO EVER TO PHYSICIANS. The PD has encouraged this behavior and attitude for two decades and there is no change in sight.
When you visit the Cleveland Clinic, ask yourself about which residents you are ALLOWED to meet. The Program Director tells the Chief Residents to invite Residents to dinner that will portray the program in a positive light, the Anesthesia Control Desk arranges lunch relief for the applicant lunches only for Residents that will portray the program in a positive light. But, if you cant find a better place to match you will learn first hand the truth of this program.
FORCED REXING: Residents are forced to Moonlight at CCF. The Program Director claims the REX program (paid Resident Experience Program) is voluntary. When you mention Mandatory Moonlighting OR Forced Rexing he will tell you that you can stay and work as a resident under the 80 hour/week ACGME mandate or you can VOLUNTEER to get paid for the time you are here. Either way you are going to stay and work. If people complain, he threatens to keep the moonlighting pay and work residents into the ground.
Residents are a slave work force: This is Anesthesia, not Surgery, but Residents relieve CRNAs and SRNAs in the OR, so they can leave on time. Contract this with the MANY, MANY, MANY programs that use CRNAs to get Residents out of the OR on a daily basis to provide reading time to residents.
Resident Physicians supervised by Nurses at CCF: You are directly supervised by an RN and a LPN in the PACE clinic. They reprimand you, nag you about productivity, and find any reason to scold you if you tolerate it they even try to tell you when you can go to lunch and monitor your lunch breaks down to the minute. They offer NO EDUCATIONAL VALUE to Physicians training it is just easier for the Residency to have Nurses in charge of you, because the Anesthesia Staff Physicians dont want to be involved.
CRNA/SRNA get Case Preference: Many times on big important rotations like Neuro, Vascular, ENT, and Cardiac you will be assigned to trivial cases while SRNAs and CRNAs are given the best learning cases. Expect to get an AV fistula while the SRNA gets the open AAA, the Control Desk says This is a CRNA training program too. There is a large and profitable CRNA presence here at CCF. These Nurses are treated as royalty. Residents ALWAYS relieve Nurses in the ORs, so they can go home and Residents finish the cases. Often the Nurses leaving at 3:30 PM go home while Residents are left in ORs without getting a break or lunch that day. Look for a better residency program that gives preference to Physicians in Training and not Nurses.
Pro-CRNA Program Director: Most of his very limited OR time is spent supervising CRNAs, 2 at a time, instead of teaching Residents CCF is a RESIDENT TRAINING PROGRAM, so why does the Program Director work with Nurses over Residents. He is not alone, the immediate-past-Chair of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia ONLY works with Nurses and will never allow a resident in his OR. Find a better program where the Physicians will work with the Resident Physicians preferentially and not the Nurses.
Patients often refuse Resident Care at CCF: On the OB rotation RNs have an adversarial relationship with residents. Nurses talk patients out of Resident care and into only allowing Attendings to perform epidurals and spinals. This occurs 20-25% of the time, which sadly is a big improvement since efforts have been made to correct the problem.
Residents work for CRNAs: Huron Hospital is the realm of the CRNA. The attendings there tell residents to do whatever the CRNAs say. The attendings are private practice minded, not Acedemics. They tolerate residents because the must and allow CRNAs to run the show because it is profitable and the Attendings are lazy.
MALIGNANT: The Program Administrator is an unstable, unpredictable, and malignant person. She demands complete obedience then she berates, humiliates, and degrades Physicians at the Resident and Staff level openly and has never received even a word of caution from the Program Director. She has forced Residents into LOAs at least twice this year and caused one Resident to quit Anesthesia all together. She expects, even demands respect. She will tell you how much power she has, threatens to lose your paperwork for vacation, reimbursements, etc and GIVES ABSOLUTELY NO RESPECT WHAT SO EVER TO PHYSICIANS. The PD has encouraged this behavior and attitude for two decades and there is no change in sight.
When you visit the Cleveland Clinic, ask yourself about which residents you are ALLOWED to meet. The Program Director tells the Chief Residents to invite Residents to dinner that will portray the program in a positive light, the Anesthesia Control Desk arranges lunch relief for the applicant lunches only for Residents that will portray the program in a positive light. But, if you cant find a better place to match you will learn first hand the truth of this program.
Take complaints with a grain of salt. I do not know how good other places have it or how bad other places have it. I suspect there are complainers everywhere though. You get good solid training here at Cleveland Clinic.
