toofache32 said:
I wouldn't rank Parkland. I heard they have the highest divorce rate in the country. And they don't even know how to pull teeth.
Same for Shreveport. They scoop out these little cancers sometimes but you can learn that anywhere.
If I had it to do again I wouldn't rank my place because I don't like:
1. Being the only service taking head and neck trauma call 365 days a year. I am so tired of doing ALL the panfacials, lacs, PTAs, midface, epistaxis, GSW etc.
2. I don't like doing all the head and neck path/cancer surgery with free flap reconstructions in the hospital. Huge resections, cancer infiltrating the IJ and flap checks. I wish my program director wasn't the chairman of the head and neck tumor board.
3. I don't like the fact that we are the only surgery service on the cleft team. I'm tired of the primary chielorhinoplasties, palates, VPI's, SARPE's, Alveolar clefts, orthognathics etcetera. I wish my other attending wasn't the founder and director of our hospital's cleft team for the past 20 years.
4. I wish we didn't do all the cranioplasties in central Illinois. I wish the poor kids would go to Chicago or St. Louis.
5. I wish we didn't do all the dermatopathology resections and flap reconstructions. I wish that the dermatologists would stop coming to our clinic every Tuesday and stop seeing those 80 patients making us do all the melanomas, BCC, and SCC.
6. I definately don't like our faculty to resident ratio. 4 residents to 3.5 faculty. I mean some poor guy has only .5 faculty! What a rip!
You see, I love teeth. The cusp of carabelli gives me a tachycardia. My adrenal medulla just spasms when I see teeth. I just feel so much more fulfilled when I have done this huge work up and take out a single tooth.... Please, don't make my mistake and rank my program. Stay with the good stuff... teeth under local, mandibles, and orthognathics. This stuff above is just so....so.... well... you can learn it when you get out in private practice. Just a few weekend CE's. I've heard even perio has started some of this stuff.... Take toof's and my advice and look elsewhere....