Question for River13

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What can you tell me about the Ohio State OMS program? When I interviewed, it seemed to be a solid program...lots of implants, thirds, or cases, anesthesia...the only drawback was that the chairman stepped down but it still a faculty member. Also, the residents seemed happy. Please give me any more insight to the program as the MATCH is due this friday.

 

[River13]

What can you tell me about the Ohio State OMS program? When I interviewed, it seemed to be a solid program...lots of implants, thirds, or cases, anesthesia...the only drawback was that the chairman stepped down but it still a faculty member. Also, the residents seemed happy. Please give me any more insight to the program as the MATCH is due this friday.

When I externed there last year two of the chief residents told me they wished that they had gone somewhere else, a second year resident was looking to transfer, and a fourth had just recently transferred to Knoxville, reason being he felt he wasn't getting enough surgery training. They also said that Larson blew their numbers up deceptively to interviewees...i.e. quoting 200 cosmetic cases from the year before when really none were done by the residents themselves, but by a part-time attending. When I was their they were covering the level 2 trauma center only, not the downtown level 1, so they got hardly any trauma, unlike they used to years ago.

I've also never seen chief residents have to hold sticks while the attendings did all the cutting...that sucked...

All in all the only positive was that the residents were some of the nicest people you would ever meet, but that's the only positive. It used to be a strong program.

I also remember attendings "grounding" residents from participating in any surgeries for a month at a time if they made simple mistakes like misplacing paperwork.