Residency program rank list

[gasgirly]

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UNC vs Tufts vs Brown for top 3

Born and raised in NC with most of my family in the area still. Don’t really want to live in a college town again. Have family up in Boston and have always wanted to experience the area for a few years. Want a good work-life balance with solid clinical experience. I have heard Tufts is struggling with funding, Brown struggles with case exposure to trauma/transplant, and UNC is just in a sleepier town but has solid exposures to everything. Thinking I eventually want to end up back in NC to practice

 

[Drwine]

Boston is the best city in the country for young people. You can become a reasonable anesthesiologist at all of the above.

 

[ucladoc2b]

UNC. Residency is stressful. The familiarity of your home makes things easier. And this is where you want to be eventually.

Trauma/transplant high volume is kinda whatever. Big case volume (vascular, general, and others) will get you a similar experience.

 

[kidthor]

UNC is a fantastic program and will of course help you get a job in the area, so I’d go with them as #1 given your criteria.

That said, I’ve had colleagues from all three of those programs and they all had positive experiences.

 

[pgg]

I wouldn't sweat transplant or trauma volume.

Trauma is easy, formulaic. It's also a pain in the ass because people always get hurt at night, never at convenient times like Tuesdays at 10 AM. I would view low trauma case load as a very positive feature of any residency program. Residency is exhausting enough, there's no reason to actively seek out call nights full of bull**** knife and gun club cases. (Maybe that sounds exciting now but the shine fades fast.)

There's transplant and then there's Transplant. Hearts and lungs and livers are great cases. Kidneys, not so special. But honestly the presence or absence of either shouldn't really be a deal maker or breaker for residency. Frequently the places that do hearts and lungs will have mostly fellows doing those cases anyway. I did exactly zero heart and lung transplants before my fellowship and it was OK.

 

[Hoya11]

UNC vs Tufts vs Brown for top 3

Born and raised in NC with most of my family in the area still. Don’t really want to live in a college town again. Have family up in Boston and have always wanted to experience the area for a few years. Want a good work-life balance with solid clinical experience. I have heard Tufts is struggling with funding, Brown struggles with case exposure to trauma/transplant, and UNC is just in a sleepier town but has solid exposures to everything. Thinking I eventually want to end up back in NC to practice

I went to Tufts. Had a great experience. It’s not for everyone. You work hard and the cases are hard and you have a lot of autonomy from the beginning. Great people. As a CA-2 you are way ahead of those in the other Boston programs that hold your hand and emphasize the zebras.

Brown we rotated through . I hated it and most others hated it. It’s smaller, feels more PP, not great docs, not great cases especially compared to tufts. Would eliminate Brown personally.

Feel free to PM me..