What's going on at UC Davis?

[chestercat7]

Heard that they had their second CA-1 leave in as many months. As someone always on the look out for advanced California spots that could be good for me, but if I were to try to fill that position, would I be going to a malignant program?

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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.

 

[DocMcCoy]

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.

 

[Psai]

Not every program is a good fit for the resident and not every resident is a good fit for the specialty

 

[nimbus]

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.

 

[T-burglar]

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.