Things I know about UVa:
1. Intern year approaches 80 hours on inpatient psych and IM.
2. Some months will involve a 1 hour drive to Staunton, Va (west of Cville)
3. Residents love the PD
4. UVa parking and surrounding traffic is fairly atrocious for such a small city
5. 2nd year resident I talked to is not sure how they are adjusting to new rules
6. Cville is a nice small town, but not the best place to be single
7. Decent mix of path, despite the small size, as UVa gets people from all over the state and West Va too. Also, the state facilities in Staunton have pretty severe path, especially the child facility, which is the only state child facility in Va, and sees kids from all over the state.
8. Warmer than Mass. If that's your thing
9. Despite the general lack of movie theatres, Cville has some damn good food. It can get a bit boring here, unless you like driving. We're about an hour from Richmond, ok skiing, good hiking, and fun river tubing. 2-3 hours to DC and the Beach. So, you quickly wind up wanting to go other places to hang out rather than here. Good that other places are so close, bad that theres not so much to do here besides shop in little mom-pop-hippie stores and eat.
10. $10 for each dictation finished on time (within 24 hours) while working in the UVA system (I.e. Not in Staunton). I hear you do about 7-10 of these per week, so you can add $70-100 to each week.
If you're wondering, I am a Cville native, 3rd year DO student. I'm hoping to wind up here in 2012, but mostly for family reasons, although I know it's a solid program. For myself, I'd rank it over every other place in the country (again, mostly for family and financial reasons), but I know all the UVa programs provide good training. That being said, I have no idea how it compares to UMass.
If you're reading this in spring 2012, please don't rank UVA, for my family's sake. You wouldn't like it anyways. 😉
