Beaumont is located in Royal Oak, MI, which seemed like a pretty nice suburb of Detroit. The combined TY year was a huge bonus--get to move to the area a year early, you spend one of the last 3 blocks of your intern year rotating with the ophthalmology department, supposedly no ICU time?. All of the residents seemed to absolutely LOVE the TY year. The PD, Dr. Grenadier, is an amazing, super friendly guy who was incredibly devoted to the program. There is a great continuity clinic at Beaumont that you participate in throughout all 3 years of residency. All of your call is done at Beaumont, but during the 2nd year, you spend a lot of time at private attendings' practices throughout the area, so there may be a decent amount of travel during this time. Several of the attendings are interested in international work, and this provides multiple opportunities for international travel/volunteer work during residency. They have an associated research institute that provides great opportunities for research. Their retina department, ARC, is one of the most recognized retina groups in the country and also provides one of the most coveted retina fellowships in the country. The program is didactic heavy, with lectures every morning at 7:30 I believe. Tons of extra time to read and prepare for OKAPs/boards (could be a good or bad thing). As far as surgical numbers, I don't think they struggled in any areas, but I don't remember them being super strong in volume either (so maybe average?). Finally, Beaumont Hospital is really well-regarded, and although I don't put a lot of weight on US News rankings, this year their hospital was ranked #1 overall in Michigan (beating the University of Michigan), and has other nationally highly ranked departments, including ortho, endocrine, cardiology, etc).
