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How is the program at UTSouthwestern? I have gotten some feedback from people on this site before, and it has been very helpful. Any information on this program would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[UCLAMAN]

How is the program at UTSouthwestern? I have gotten some feedback from people on this site before, and it has been very helpful. Any information on this program would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

my advisor has claimed that while parkland has a good program...he also said that it is going to be a "rough 80 hour week." His exact words. I asked him how so and he said that they just work the residents extremely hard there. I have no clue how much truth there is to what he said.

 

[kauai]

I do not have any personal knowledge about this program--however, I recall a lot of negative things being said about this program last year (e.g. malignant etc.) so I would do a search of this forum.

 

[APGAR10/10]

How is the program at UTSouthwestern? I have gotten some feedback from people on this site before, and it has been very helpful. Any information on this program would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

I would be really careful about this one. I know a lot of applicants who were enamored with the number of deliveries at Parkland, and that was really the only draw.

When I interviewed there, I asked a chief resident why almost all C-sections are midline abdominal incisions (yeah, they aren't all that big on pfannensteils there.) The answer: "That's just the way we do it at Parkland." So, not really an answer at all. Most of the attendings trained at Parkland, so you might find it a little inbred.

However, if you are interested in MFM, the graduating residents are all set to handle any number of obstetric emergencies. They are also probably fluent in Spanish by the time they are done.

You really should do an away there to see if it's the place for you if you think you might be interested. On a personal note, a friend of mine is a fellow there, and she told me to steer clear of UTS for residency. She likes the residents, but isn't impressed with their training.

 

[Embryo2006]

I would be really careful about this one. I know a lot of applicants who were enamored with the number of deliveries at Parkland, and that was really the only draw.

When I interviewed there, I asked a chief resident why almost all C-sections are midline abdominal incisions (yeah, they aren't all that big on pfannensteils there.) The answer: "That's just the way we do it at Parkland." So, not really an answer at all. Most of the attendings trained at Parkland, so you might find it a little inbred.

However, if you are interested in MFM, the graduating residents are all set to handle any number of obstetric emergencies. They are also probably fluent in Spanish by the time they are done.

You really should do an away there to see if it's the place for you if you think you might be interested. On a personal note, a friend of mine is a fellow there, and she told me to steer clear of UTS for residency. She likes the residents, but isn't impressed with their training.

Parkland has a big name in obstetrics thanks to their incredible ob numbers and the amount of research that it enables them to do. They also seem to have enough residents per class to handle the volume. I was told that you will work hard while you are there, but you will generally stay within the 80 hr work wk. The residents seemed really fun there. They weren't even close to pretentious, and neither were the attendings. My main turn off was the fact that they tend to do things by protocol. In theory, their protocols are supposed to be "evidence based." As mentioned above, however, some things that they do seem to be done simply because they're the "Parkland Way." Their gyn numbers are also pretty average compared to their ob. You may want to consider whether their balance (or lack thereof) is ok for you.

 

[UCLAMAN]

Parkland has a big name in obstetrics thanks to their incredible ob numbers and the amount of research that it enables them to do. They also seem to have enough residents per class to handle the volume. I was told that you will work hard while you are there, but you will generally stay within the 80 hr work wk. The residents seemed really fun there. They weren't even close to pretentious, and neither were the attendings. My main turn off was the fact that they tend to do things by protocol. In theory, their protocols are supposed to be "evidence based." As mentioned above, however, some things that they do seem to be done simply because they're the "Parkland Way." Their gyn numbers are also pretty average compared to their ob. You may want to consider whether their balance (or lack thereof) is ok for you.

whats the deal with their vertical c-section incisions at parkland? everything goes pfannenstiel if possible here at northwestern...at the very least....doesnt a pfannenstiel look a little better afterwards?

 

[tiredmom]

I heard the residents weren't happy with the ob:gyn ratio being so skewed towards OB. The hospital averaged like 23 births/day a few years back, I think it's gone up. I toured L&D - it was pretty crazy - two stretchers per room with a nurse running pit on both, then calling out for "who can take this delivery?" I don't know that they have LDRs for most deliveries - that was only on the low risk side (run mainly by the midwives). So they were still wheeling the patients back for delivery.
****All my info is 5+ years old, so it might have changed since then.

 

[bubblegumbezoar]

I took a second look there last year, and the residents were very happy. I think one good thing about their C-sections is that they close subcuticular rather than with staples, and ripping staples out 48-72 hours later, which I've seen at other places, so tha is a very nice, cosmetic closure. I saw two C-sections on that day, both were Pfannenstiel incisisions, and they let me deliver a baby that day as well, which I thought was really nice of them considering I didn't go to their school.

They said that when you leave there, you are prepared for any ob emergency. I did see plenty of residents who went into gyn - one matched into a laparoscopic fellowship. The only examples of "Parkland way" that I ran across was not putting premature labor patients into bedrest because their literature (keep in mind they are the people who produce Williams obstetrics because they have the numbers and the people who are great in MFM) do not support it.

Just my two cents, and less than a year old info.