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I was under the impression the pyramidal programs are a thing of the past. I'm not wrong about this, am I? Or should I be asking about this on interviews?
Stillorgan said:Yeah, I know they're illegal. But do they still exist?
MMH Doc said:I can think of a couple off of the top of my head. Do a quick FREIDA search. You will see some programs which have fewer PGY 5 positions than they do PGY 4 or 3 positions.
RichL025 said:All of the army programs (except one, I think) have one more PGY-1 slot than PGY-2+.
I haven't heard, however, that they are trying to get away from that.
Pilot Doc said:I've heard of some programs that run stealth pyramidal programs where they will fire categorical residents if they see better options in their prelims. Hard to say which are which.
Stillorgan said:Yeah, that's sort of what I'm getting at here. One program in New York that I know of takes in the same number of catagoricals as there are chiefs. But there are regular drop-outs and regular transfers from prelim to catagorical. I not sure how I see that that's so different from a pyramidal structure.