Quality of Parking

[garfield]

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What defines crappy parking? Encompasses so many factors... Difficulty in getting a spot (thus having to get there at 5 am), having to walk blocks and blocks toting your stuff to get to work, paying way too much, hoodlums smashing your car windows... 👎

I was superficial enough to look at parking as a small factor when evaluating programs. It's not a major point at all, but I liked to consider teeny factors like parking, food choices, resident offices, housing costs, the city, when ranking otherwise similar programs. Seems like as a resident, the parking can be decent at quite a few of the programs I went to. UTSW has parking that's closeby for path residents. We actually get choices in which parking garage to park in (the farther is cheaper), and the closest one is just maybe 50 yards away from my office. Don't have to walk in the rain either, can take an underground route as well. And only pay something like 16 bucks a month for that closest garage. Wake Forest also had real nice parking... similar features excepst that garage was much newer.

Worst parking for places in the South that I remember: Emory, MUSC, MD Anderson

 

[Non-Trad DO]

😛 I'm not sure I would mind having to be there 0500 because then it would forceme to read. I agree though that parking should be considered whether one wants to read or not...maybe "That should be the question.".

 

[jeff2005]

Worst parking for places in the South that I remember: Emory, MUSC, MD Anderson

parking IS important. I avoid doing rotations at my schools main hospital because of the parking situation. I do NOT want to pay for parking as a resident. I heard Emory is in a nice residential neighborhood, maybe I could live close by and walk! I also have the urge to go somewhere warm, buy a scooter, and ride it too work everyday. I plan on enjoying residency gosh darn it!

 

[yaah]

Parking is a very nice luxury, although I didn't use it as a deciding factor. Generally, programs that have problems with parkings are usually big cities, etc, places where living expenses are high anyway. There are the extremes like Dartmouth (I think, anyway) where parking is ample, free, and close. Here I pay a monthly fee (about $45, program contributes another $10-11) which is pre-tax. There is the option to pay less but you have to park in lots which require shuttles. Public transport is decent in Ann Arbor but not really from where I live. If I get here at my normal time (generally before 730) I can park pretty close, no problems.

Thus, here it is probably more in terms of expense, but it balances out with other benefits (like free health care, computer, etc)

Crappy parking, to me: No guaranteed spot. Dangerous area. Requires a shuttle to get to the hospital.