Did anyone else get that email about how Cedars will no longer be participating in this year's match!?! Seeing how I already interviewed there and wasted my time & $$$ can I ask for travel reimbursement? 😡 It was a painfully awful interview day. I actually wanted to leave mid-day. I walked away thinking I wouldn't even rank them...
so... Cedars is out
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That's interesting. First their LPS status, now this. Anyone have an inside scoop?
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Yeah, got that e-mail. Really wanted to interview there.
The email said the current residents would finish there. Not sure what exactly this will mean for them but hopefully it works out.
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Wow! I guess it's a good thing I canceled my interview there when I applied a few years ago. At the time, I heard it was a pretty good program, so I'm surprised. Those poor residents.
Editing to add that they say the program was founded in 1957, so I doubt it wasn't one of their "core strengths." Instead I'm sure money is the big issue. So now at least 3 academic inpatient psychiatry units have closed that I know of -- Colorado, OU-OKC and Cedars-Sinai. Huge blow for Cedars because I guess they're tied to their inpatient unit. Who's next?
And, in my community, losing 17 beds would be a huge blow to mental health because we're already constantly short of beds and have people spending days in the ED because of it. Sad all around.
Editing to add that they say the program was founded in 1957, so I doubt it wasn't one of their "core strengths." Instead I'm sure money is the big issue. So now at least 3 academic inpatient psychiatry units have closed that I know of -- Colorado, OU-OKC and Cedars-Sinai. Huge blow for Cedars because I guess they're tied to their inpatient unit. Who's next?
And, in my community, losing 17 beds would be a huge blow to mental health because we're already constantly short of beds and have people spending days in the ED because of it. Sad all around.
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Not to mention the loss of training spots for a profession that is already horribly understaffed as it is. 🙁
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This is kind of poetic justice for me...I interviewed for Cedars last year and ranked them highly, and didn't match there. Was kind of bitter. Now ironically I will be better off.
On the other hand this closure concerns me for 3 reasons. Firstly I am obviously sad for the psych residents there, and I hope they will either be allowed to finish or can find spots in other programmes. Secondly the trend of closing inpatient psych units is concerning both because Los Angeles losing inpatient units fast, and the existing ones are already super crowded and always full. I'm also really interested in inpatient work as a career, I really like it, and it sounds like by the time I graduate there may be very few job positions for inpatient work left, I may be forced to do outpatient. Thirdly, Cedars is probably going to fire all those psych attendings there. Those psych attendings will need to find new jobs. This is going to further crowd the job market in already-competitive California for when I graduate. I guess Cedars is going to focus on surgery like every other hospital. Damn maybe I should have gone into surgery? Lol j/k
On the other hand this closure concerns me for 3 reasons. Firstly I am obviously sad for the psych residents there, and I hope they will either be allowed to finish or can find spots in other programmes. Secondly the trend of closing inpatient psych units is concerning both because Los Angeles losing inpatient units fast, and the existing ones are already super crowded and always full. I'm also really interested in inpatient work as a career, I really like it, and it sounds like by the time I graduate there may be very few job positions for inpatient work left, I may be forced to do outpatient. Thirdly, Cedars is probably going to fire all those psych attendings there. Those psych attendings will need to find new jobs. This is going to further crowd the job market in already-competitive California for when I graduate. I guess Cedars is going to focus on surgery like every other hospital. Damn maybe I should have gone into surgery? Lol j/k
