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Iluvpassingas

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Hey friends,

Can any residents or students comment on how the program is doing? How's the teaching, work life, hours, schedule, cases? I've searched and searched, but the threads about UT-Houston are pretty old, and the most recent one just discusses Southwestern.

Thanks!👍
 
Gas you down said:
do they train SRNA's? i thought they just had an AA training program.
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The new AA program is I believe thru Case Western but at the Medical Center. And yes, they certainly have SRNA's. As does Baylor. A Baylor resident told me that as CA1s they sometimes share cases. The UTH residents may not initially, but they do at one of the hospitals they rotate thru as senior resident. I know this for a fact as I have rotated thru this hospital myself.
choco
 
I don't know how this same misinformation gets resurrected every year, but SRNA's at BCM do NOT, EVER share cases with a resident. In the beginning part of each academic cycle, when most trainees are new and rotating at the county hospital, SRNAs may be paired in rooms together, and new CA1s (especially during 'mentor mode') may be paired together or with an upper level resident. But never do the two mix. The only times SRNAs and residents may mingle on the same patient is with a hand-off at the end of the day when the call team arrives, or on-call if the call team includes SRNA(s). In the latter instance, SRNAs are assigned cases throughout the night while supervised by the senior resident, or may lend an extra hand for stat intubations by the senior or stat cases (e.g. trauma) where any available person helps.

The most important thing to be 'wary' about is taking advice from internet forums. If interested in these programs, investigate them directly with people who know (chief resident emails can be accessed from most programs' internet sites, and they wouldn't mind answering simple questions like these). Much better than 2nd or 3rd-hand information.
 
HoustonDreaming said:
I don't know how this same misinformation gets resurrected every year, but SRNA's at BCM do NOT, EVER share cases with a resident. In the beginning part of each academic cycle, when most trainees are new and rotating at the county hospital, SRNAs may be paired in rooms together, and new CA1s (especially during 'mentor mode') may be paired together or with an upper level resident. But never do the two mix. The only times SRNAs and residents may mingle on the same patient is with a hand-off at the end of the day when the call team arrives, or on-call if the call team includes SRNA(s). In the latter instance, SRNAs are assigned cases throughout the night while supervised by the senior resident, or may lend an extra hand for stat intubations by the senior or stat cases (e.g. trauma) where any available person helps.

The most important thing to be 'wary' about is taking advice from internet forums. If interested in these programs, investigate them directly with people who know (chief resident emails can be accessed from most programs' internet sites, and they wouldn't mind answering simple questions like these). Much better than 2nd or 3rd-hand information.
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I may have heard this information about CA1's sharing cases from another BCM resident, but I can tell you directly that I am rotating in a facility with Baylor and UTH residents and working side by side with them.

Yes, we are frequently paired up with SRNA's. I don't know how more direct you can get than that. Maybe you have not rotated thru this facility but it is a senior resident rotation that may or may not be optional for you depending on what numbers you need to meet your minimums.

Have you rotated thru all the hospitals affiliated with Baylor? If not then you clearly have no idea. I can see you trying to defend your program though, but this is a FACT. This means that our residents train with SRNA's too but we are an outside institution and this is a completely optional rotation. Sorry, not trying to attack you or anything, just pointing out facts is all.
 
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chocomorsel said:
The new AA program is I believe thru Case Western but at the Medical Center. And yes, they certainly have SRNA's. As does Baylor. A Baylor resident told me that as CA1s they sometimes share cases. The UTH residents may not initially, but they do at one of the hospitals they rotate thru as senior resident. I know this for a fact as I have rotated thru this hospital myself.
choco
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Yes it is the Case AA school there, our program director is a huge AA proponent.
 
chocomorsel said:
I may have heard this information about CA1's sharing cases from another BCM resident, but I can tell you directly that I am rotating in a facility with Baylor and UTH residents and working side by side with them.

Yes, we are frequently paired up with SRNA's. I don't know how more direct you can get than that. Maybe you have not rotated thru this facility but it is a senior resident rotation that may or may not be optional for you depending on what numbers you need to meet your minimums.

Have you rotated thru all the hospitals affiliated with Baylor? If not then you clearly have no idea. I can see you trying to defend your program though, but this is a FACT. This means that our residents train with SRNA's too but we are an outside institution and this is a completely optional rotation. Sorry, not trying to attack you or anything, just pointing out facts is all.
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Ah, since I think you are UTMB, you must be talking about Methodist CVOR. While I don't agree with Methodist's philospophy of having SRNAs in the rooms, they should be there acting as a resident assistant, never to 'share' the case with the resident. If this is the case with your rotation I would encourage you to discuss this with your rotation director and your home program director.

I must also point out that this is also a totally optional rotation for BCM (Methodist is a very loose affiliate of BCM), although I don't know the status for UTH. We get plenty of CV numbers of all types at THI (department all BCM faculty). While I stand by my original post, I do believe there is value to working with SRNAs and AAs in a supervisory position (AAs will sometimes assist in our rooms at THI) as it is good experience in learning their limitations in practice and how to effectively command them in a team. If prospective residents are looking for programs which totally shield them from the existence of SRNAs/AAs, I would encourage them to look past Houston.

Again, I would encourage all prospective applicants to bring these questions to the programs directly, and not take advice from the internet (me) or residents from outside programs at face value.
 
chocomorsel said:
I may have heard this information about CA1's sharing cases from another BCM resident, but I can tell you directly that I am rotating in a facility with Baylor and UTH residents and working side by side with them.

Yes, we are frequently paired up with SRNA's. I don't know how more direct you can get than that. Maybe you have not rotated thru this facility but it is a senior resident rotation that may or may not be optional for you depending on what numbers you need to meet your minimums.

Have you rotated thru all the hospitals affiliated with Baylor? If not then you clearly have no idea. I can see you trying to defend your program though, but this is a FACT. This means that our residents train with SRNA's too but we are an outside institution and this is a completely optional rotation. Sorry, not trying to attack you or anything, just pointing out facts is all.
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Looking at your past posts, you sure do alot of Baylor hating. You want to talk FACTS, let's talk FACTS

Fact:
1. Baylor CA1's occasionally (less than 25% of the time) share cases with another RESIDENT early on during their CA1 year at Ben Taub General Hospital and the VA Hospital only.

Fact:
2. Baylor residents have ZERO problem meeting any of the ABA minimums. In fact, the majority of residents (greater than 90%) have met all ABA minimums at the end of the CA2 year.

Fact:
3. The Cardiac rotation at the Methodist Hospital/Fondren Brown CV ORs, which you are referring to when working with SRNAs, is a completely OPTIONAL rotation for all Baylor residents. Every single graduating resident from Baylor does a MINIMUM of 3 months at Texas Heart Intitute, many of whom have done 6 months at THI.

You got questions? We got answers. Why don't we all get information directly from current residents and not from over-hearing my great grandma's best friend's niece's nephew's cousin's dog's rat's BFF who was talking about program X
 
Clearly hit a nerve there. Alright, Baylor is the best hospital in the USA. Heck in the world. Their residents are the best trained in the whole U.S. How about that? Gosh darn, I should have trained there because everywhere else, is crap. Feel better now?
 
PropofolPlayboy said:
Looking at your past posts, you sure do alot of Baylor hating. You want to talk FACTS, let's talk FACTS

Fact:
1. Baylor CA1's occasionally (less than 25% of the time) share cases with another RESIDENT early on during their CA1 year at Ben Taub General Hospital and the VA Hospital only.

Fact:
2. Baylor residents have ZERO problem meeting any of the ABA minimums. In fact, the majority of residents (greater than 90%) have met all ABA minimums at the end of the CA2 year.

Fact:
3. The Cardiac rotation at the Methodist Hospital/Fondren Brown CV ORs, which you are referring to when working with SRNAs, is a completely OPTIONAL rotation for all Baylor residents. Every single graduating resident from Baylor does a MINIMUM of 3 months at Texas Heart Intitute, many of whom have done 6 months at THI.

You got questions? We got answers. Why don't we all get information directly from current residents and not from over-hearing my great grandma's best friend's niece's nephew's cousin's dog's rat's BFF who was talking about program X
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Never mind.
 
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