There used to a section to look at feedback of residency interviews sorted by school and specialty.. Then the site design changed for me a few days ago and I can't find it anymore.. I only see the graduated school feedbacks, not the residency ones.. Anyone got a link? Thanks
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anyone?
I was wondering the same thing.
I was wondering the same thing.
same here.
Nevermind--only med school information is available.
Totally lame, SDN.
Totally lame, SDN.
Most individual specialty forums have some version of this. EM is probably one of the best. But there's never been an organized attempt to do this for every specialty. Do you have any idea what that would look like?
I mean, for IM, Gen Surg and Peds alone there are over 800 programs. That's insane to try to keep track of.
I mean, for IM, Gen Surg and Peds alone there are over 800 programs. That's insane to try to keep track of.
There's also the issue that we/SDN could not (and not for lack of trying) get any reasonable number of students/residents to even write reviews. Too paranoid that any negative comments would be traced back to them. We offered to post them anonymously but still no takers.
So don't blame SDN for being "lame" but rather your colleagues for being too uncomfortable/busy/whatever to post any reviews.
Can't some boards do it where they PM their residency review to the moderator of that board so they can paste it?
SDN should buy Scutwork.com and run it.
Edit: Oops, just saw you said even reluctant to do so with anonymous posting.
Again...individual forums have this kind of thing set up and there are usually mods and regular users who offer to post anonymously and it's still pretty rare that it happens. And again, to use one specialty (mine) as an example there are over 400 IM programs out there. Even if we were to formally request people write reviews, we'd get at the most, 50 different programs. Then people would just bitch because the one program they wanted to know about wasn't on the list. Also, these things rapidly go out of date. If I'd written a review of my program at the end of my intern year, about the only thing that would have been the same 2 years later at the end of residency was that we rotated at the same 2 hospitals. Everything else: call structure, rotation distribution, PD, # of residents, etc; was different. So how is that even useful?
As for scutwork, we used to partner with them and have tried to contact them to take it over, but it's basically a ghost site now and nobody responds to contact requests.
All attempts to contact the owners of Scutwork.com have been fruitless: disconnected telephone numbers, no responses to emails, dead links on their website. We would be more than happy to take over their forums and run them for them if only we could get a hold of someone affiliated with them.
Otherwise the issue is as described above: there are such a large number of residency programs out there the vast majority would have no reviews and only a few more than one which just isn't terribly helpful.
Otherwise the issue is as described above: there are such a large number of residency programs out there the vast majority would have no reviews and only a few more than one which just isn't terribly helpful.
I saw the owner of the website is a Harvard affiliated MD. Have you tried emailing his work email?
I personally have and received no response.
Seems a shame they let that site die out... I remember reading it back in the day when I was applying for residency.
It's weird, they're still posting new reviews on the site... I suppose it could be automated, but they seem to have at least some minimal screening to avoid a preponderance of spam, so I think there has to be a person still paying attention to it...
Yes, those things change. I think most applicants realize that. I don't think things like program culture change as much as there is a lot of inertia. I think those things are more revealing in the reviews.
I don't think he wants to give it up just yet:
http://lcs.mgh.harvard.edu/people/faculty.html
Adrian Zai, MD, PhD
Dr. Zai is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His present research interests include chronic disease management and population disease management. His current projects include Registry Population Management (RPM) and Scutwork, a residency program review site.
http://lcs.mgh.harvard.edu/resources/poster-scutwork.pdf
Perhaps although it's a bit unprofessional wouldn't you say to not answer your emails from a colleague? 😉I don't think he wants to give it up just yet:
http://lcs.mgh.harvard.edu/people/faculty.html
Adrian Zai, MD, PhD
Dr. Zai is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His present research interests include chronic disease management and population disease management. His current projects include Registry Population Management (RPM) and Scutwork, a residency program review site.
http://lcs.mgh.harvard.edu/resources/poster-scutwork.pdf
I'm sure there are ton of Harvard ppl here on Sdn here who can walk down the hall and pay him a visit
Does that picture look like someone who wants to answer an email from the rest of us heathens not from Harvard? 😉
Well back in the day Dr Zai and I had a fair bit of communication so I'm not your average heathen. 😉 I assume my emails are going to his Junk Folder.
