TCOM students or anybody--Can anyone give me any info on these Dallas Hospitals?

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Charlton Methodist Hospital and Plaza Medical Center?

are they good especially for Family Practice/OMM?

 

[JustPlainBill]

I wouldn't touch Plaza with a 10 foot pole. The FM people wind up going to the IM morning report which is very toxic. They actually make the interns and med students sit up front so they 'know who to pick on'. The FM attending and PD - Dr. Tanner - is really good and so are the FM residents but having to deal with the IM at Plaza is a non-starter for me.

Charlton-Methodist is ok. Small hospital,unopposed residency and a good 'family' feel amongst the residents. A few of them have attitudes but that happens everywhere. The osteopathic PD - Dr. Shima - is good and sincerely interested in you learning and becoming the best doc you can be. He is seriously osteopathic in orientation and has OMT days where you get to practice and develop skills. For me, it's too sports medicine oriented. One thing I had to get used to as a student was not being allowed to write in the chart, but yet having to present to the resident and then the attending. One thing - while I don't know what other activities were going on, patient load seems light. I've seen the chief resident have 6 patients for an afternoon (1:30 to 4:30) and that was considered heavy. Again, I don't know what else was going on.....

 

[ComicBookHero20]

I wouldn't touch Plaza with a 10 foot pole. The FM people wind up going to the IM morning report which is very toxic. They actually make the interns and med students sit up front so they 'know who to pick on'. The FM attending and PD - Dr. Tanner - is really good and so are the FM residents but having to deal with the IM at Plaza is a non-starter for me.

Charlton-Methodist is ok. Small hospital,unopposed residency and a good 'family' feel amongst the residents. A few of them have attitudes but that happens everywhere. The osteopathic PD - Dr. Shima - is good and sincerely interested in you learning and becoming the best doc you can be. He is seriously osteopathic in orientation and has OMT days where you get to practice and develop skills. For me, it's too sports medicine oriented. One thing I had to get used to as a student was not being allowed to write in the chart, but yet having to present to the resident and then the attending. One thing - while I don't know what other activities were going on, patient load seems light. I've seen the chief resident have 6 patients for an afternoon (1:30 to 4:30) and that was considered heavy. Again, I don't know what else was going on.....

thank you for your input

my parents are moving to the dallas area and i wanted to know what hospitals to consider doing a residency in to stay close to them, as far as i can find the only ones in that area with FP/OMT residencies are those 2 hospitals...but i have no idea how good they are

it seems like methodist is more in line with what i want but i want to know that as an FP i'd see and know how to treat everything (well almost everything, you get my gist)

 

[cliquesh]

I wouldn't touch Plaza with a 10 foot pole. The FM people wind up going to the IM morning report which is very toxic. They actually make the interns and med students sit up front so they 'know who to pick on'. The FM attending and PD - Dr. Tanner - is really good and so are the FM residents but having to deal with the IM at Plaza is a non-starter for me.

Charlton-Methodist is ok. Small hospital,unopposed residency and a good 'family' feel amongst the residents. A few of them have attitudes but that happens everywhere. The osteopathic PD - Dr. Shima - is good and sincerely interested in you learning and becoming the best doc you can be. He is seriously osteopathic in orientation and has OMT days where you get to practice and develop skills. For me, it's too sports medicine oriented. One thing I had to get used to as a student was not being allowed to write in the chart, but yet having to present to the resident and then the attending. One thing - while I don't know what other activities were going on, patient load seems light. I've seen the chief resident have 6 patients for an afternoon (1:30 to 4:30) and that was considered heavy. Again, I don't know what else was going on.....

That seems really low. Is that common for a FP residency or would it be different at a large, University ACGME residency? If so, how much different? 10 patients 20? 30?

 

[JustPlainBill]

thank you for your input

my parents are moving to the dallas area and i wanted to know what hospitals to consider doing a residency in to stay close to them, as far as i can find the only ones in that area with FP/OMT residencies are those 2 hospitals...but i have no idea how good they are

it seems like methodist is more in line with what i want but i want to know that as an FP i'd see and know how to treat everything (well almost everything, you get my gist)

Methodist is one of the ones in Texas that's high on my list. If you've got any interest in internal medicine, you might try Dallas Methodist. THAT is a kick ass program. A very sincere learning environment. The PD, Dr. Hunter, leads morning report and teaches you how to think by example. The attendings were really good and the resident I had flat out told me that if the case didn't have anything left to learn he would switch me to another case that I could learn from.....and he did. I'm trying to get back there for a 4th year rotation and then throw my hat in the ring for a residency slot. I could do hospitalist......easily.....

 

[jbp100]

thank you for your input

my parents are moving to the dallas area and i wanted to know what hospitals to consider doing a residency in to stay close to them, as far as i can find the only ones in that area with FP/OMT residencies are those 2 hospitals...but i have no idea how good they are

it seems like methodist is more in line with what i want but i want to know that as an FP i'd see and know how to treat everything (well almost everything, you get my gist)

Don't know if you are limiting yourself to just osteopathic programs, but JPS in Fort Worth has a pretty kick-butt family medicine program. They are the largest family medicine residency in the country and they definitely run that hospital. That combined with the fact several of our graduates go there every year (DO friendly) could be a good combination for you. I personally hate OB/GYN and well child checkups so much that I could never do family medicine, but if that were not the case, JPS would be high on my list.

 

[ComicBookHero20]

Don't know if you are limiting yourself to just osteopathic programs, but JPS in Fort Worth has a pretty kick-butt family medicine program. They are the largest family medicine residency in the country and they definitely run that hospital. That combined with the fact several of our graduates go there every year (DO friendly) could be a good combination for you. I personally hate OB/GYN and well child checkups so much that I could never do family medicine, but if that were not the case, JPS would be high on my list.

I want to do FP/OMT combined and looking at the osteopathic.org website, looking for residecies in the Dallas area that have that option