Univ of Virginia Surgery

[BruinEye]

Does anyone have any thoughts on the surgery program at UVA? I matched into ophtho there and to make a long story short, I have to do my prelim at UVA and I'm stuck between prelim med and surgery. I'd rather do surgery, but I don't know anything about the program because they don't do interviews for the designated prelims. I know pretty much nothing about so any info would help!

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[idiot07]

I interviewed there for GS last year, and it had probably the nicest group of faculty and residents I met on the interview trail. I also got the feeling they worked 80 hrs a week. I personally think you'd be crazy to do a surgery prelim for optho, but if you were going to do it, UVA would be a good place.

 

[Pir8DeacDoc]

Take the Medicine prelim. I think they get their 80 hours from their residents at UVa Surgery. However, it is known to be excellent training.

 

[drdrew267]

Take medicine... GS programs eat prelims like you for lunch from what I've seen and it ain't pretty

 

[njbmd]

Does anyone have any thoughts on the surgery program at UVA? I matched into ophtho there and to make a long story short, I have to do my prelim at UVA and I'm stuck between prelim med and surgery. I'd rather do surgery, but I don't know anything about the program because they don't do interviews for the designated prelims. I know pretty much nothing about so any info would help!

I'm very biased but Gen Surg at UVa is awesome. Great faculty and great program with a very strong program director and chair. You will be quite pleased with this program.

 

[dynx]

Does anyone have any thoughts on the surgery program at UVA? I matched into ophtho there and to make a long story short, I have to do my prelim at UVA and I'm stuck between prelim med and surgery. I'd rather do surgery, but I don't know anything about the program because they don't do interviews for the designated prelims. I know pretty much nothing about so any info would help!

I'd do the surgury prelim but of course Im a surgical resident so my opinion is kinda biased. The UVA program is great with strong training, you'll learn a ton. That said, I've felt the impact of lazy prelims at my program, so if you can't hack it do everyone a favor and stay away.

 

[BruinEye]

Thank you all for the input, UVA sounds like a great program. I have had several people surprised I wanted to do a surgery prelim. But, I actually really liked my surgery rotation and not so much with medicine. So I would much rather work 80 hours of surgery than 70 hours of medicine. And I definitely won't be lazy.