What didn't you like about it. The syllabus seemed decent enough:
How long of a ride up to whistler once you landed... 2-3 hours? or did you drive up there from Washington?
Sorry for the delayed response.
As far as the content, I have to consider the target audience and then say it probably wasn't as bad as it seemed at the time. When I attended, I was ~3/4 of the way through my fellowship year, living and breathing TEE, cardiac pathophys etc every single day. The target audience is probably generalists who also do some cardiac. The lectures were definitely above the resident level, but I quickly got bored. I felt like I could probably give ~50% of the lectures myself (with enough time to organize the talks). But of course the target audience isn't folks who are in their fellowship year.
Even if the lectures are awful (which they won't be), you can always get up, walk out, and go boarding, shopping, eating, drinking whatever. Bothe the mountain and the village are awesome places.
We just drove up from Seattle. It is a 4-hour drive.
If you want to rent a nicer car, G37, E-Class, CTS-V etc, you should fly into Seattle and rent from Hertz/ Avis at the Seattle Airport. I think that the Vancouver airport only has more run of the mill cars from what I have seen. Don't go National at Sea-Tac as they have a crappy selection.
Be sure and give yourself at least 24 hours in Vancouver while you are there. Stop by
City Cigar and have a chat with David. You don't have to be the Gov of California to spend the whole day gleaning a wealth of info from him (although Arnold is a customer).
Granville Island is also pretty sweet that time of year. Whistler is a great ski town, but Vancouver is a real, world-class city. Oh yeah, and while you are in Vancouver, hit up
Cafe de Paris French Bistro at 751 Denman Street, Denman and Robson.
- pod
That's ridiculous for November....
