I am a fourth year at USF also doing peds so I am quite familiar with the program.
Overall I think it's a very good program. Here is what I have noticed from my rotations.
At Children's (St. Pete)- the ward service is pretty busy. Typical tertiary care hospital with referals coming in from the surrounding areas. Good amount of the chronic and weird stuff. The residents definitely work on wards (q4). The ward attendings generally teach a good amount (some more, some less), but seem to have fairly high expectations of the residents. The subspecialty teaching seems to really stand out to me there. They are usually at morning report and often give very good noon conferences. As a student the sub specialty rotations seemed to be less busy with more time for teaching (I have done peds renal, ID, and ER and loved them all).
At TGH the peds services are more refelective of a community hospital. The acuity (both PICU and wards) seems to be less than at Childrens. Just finished PICU here and the attendings were very good, excellent teaching (but like I said before they have more time because of the lower acuity ).
The residents seems to get along very well with each other. I have liked all of them that I have worked with. Seems to be a good mix of married and single.
The one down side I will say is the driving. Without traffic the 2 hospitals are ~30 mins apart. If you are working at childrens in am, then have clinic in Tampa in afternoon, then have to go back to childrens for call, you can spend >1.5 hours of your day driving with traffic.
Please feel free to PM me with any other questions.
