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deleted171991
Good for them. It's way better both for the resident and the program, as long as the program helps with getting into another good residency. Unless it becomes a habit, it doesn't necessarily mean that the program is malignant.
Not everybody is a good fit for a program or anesthesia in general. Another positive way to spin this is that it is good they identified someone that wasn’t a good fit for their program/anesthesia early. Beats dragging them through till CA2/CA3 year then cutting them. I’d be more concerned if senior residents had issues.
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Not every program is a good fit for the resident and not every resident is a good fit for the specialty
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deleted87051
In my own class we had 2 out of 11 leave after our CA-1 year. One guy who didn’t match ortho, started anesthesia, then left because he got a urology spot. Another left to do psych and is now a very successful child psychiatrist in his hometown. Both were actually good friends of mine. When I was a ca-3, the CA-1 assigned to me for his first month left to do medicine after 2months of anesthesia. He’s now a very well regarded interventional cardiologist at the same hospital I currently work.
The point of all this is to illustrate that people leave for a lot of reasons. The residents involved were all great performers and nice guys and I personally couldn’t have been happier with the program. That people change their mind is not a sign that there is anything amiss.
The point of all this is to illustrate that people leave for a lot of reasons. The residents involved were all great performers and nice guys and I personally couldn’t have been happier with the program. That people change their mind is not a sign that there is anything amiss.
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in my program someone got canned from CA-1 a couple years in a row. I think a significant number of people pick anesthesia for its image in medical school (the chill specialty that dispenses party drugs) and are shell shocked to find that it's hardcore acute medicine.
