I rotated there and it seemed like a strong program. That's what baffles me about their open spots. They apparently have a total of 20 spots per year, but they only give up 13-15 for the match, the rest go outside.
Their new PD, Dr.Maguire seemed all business, solid clinical guy, and had a good vision for the program. He transformed their didactics (increasing them), but I would not blame the board pass rate on the program, but rather on the apathy of the residents.
One thing I noticed was a stark difference in attitudes between CA-1s and CA-2+3's. It seemed that the older folk were in some sort of denial that they were being "worked to death". Which completely surprised me, because they would get out at 3-4 ON REGULAR BASIS!
Their SICU rotation...they don't even carry patients, they just shadow. Now like I said PD, alluded that he wanted to handpick people for the program, so I guess it would make sense that their rank list would be shorter, and they would recruit outside (a surer bet).
Conclusion: Overall a strong program, a little weak in Cards numbers, and some bad blood in the upper years. Otherwise it just flabbergasts me that they didn't fill.