All started when SLU resident transferred to WashU
bni is actually mad chill after intern/pgy2 year
Cali programs, UCSF and USC both are just awful and soul sucking
Second USC. New chair is nice though.
residents dont get fired without reason, sure the resident deserved it
I know 5 fired residents, not one of them deserved it. It all was really based on personality conflicts, whereas if they had attending status they would have been protected. Residents have no protection. If you speak up you are done. If you sleep with the wrong nurses you are done. If you don't have friends in the program you are done. You can the a great surgeon but its an organization where people have tribe mentality and if you are not liked, others wont like you either to try and fit in, even though they may not know much about you.
To an extent this is true is nearly every occupation on the planet. Connections are helpful. But residents are not targeted for no reason in the beginning. It is a huge pain in the ass to do all of the paper work to get rid of a resident, and it is a burden on the rest of the resident pool, so no program is out to get their residents in the beginning. No intern has ever showed up in July to a Chair/PD that says "screw this person in particular". So your 5 fired residents, something started the process. They did something. In your opinion maybe it was not egregious. Maybe you do not think it warranted firing. But it convinced a department of attendings that it was a problem with the hospital's brand should not be on their diploma. So I would never really take the residents side in it that got fired. In every case, there are always multiple big offenses/professionalism problems/lies/lazy/cover ups that led to their dismissal and its just naive to believe otherwise.
