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Why is Penn so high on everyone’s list?

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just wondering but what is going wrong with uscf? why it is in decline? i looked at the resident profiles, all look like bread-and-butter elitist grads--the ones you see at top programs??

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Most of their top faculty are leaving, and according to my classmate who did a subi there (so take it with a grain of salt), the resident culture is a literal nightmare

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(03-05-2022, 07:26 PM)Guest Wrote: …let’s not derail the thread

Top : Wake, Jeff, Buffalo
Bottom: Rutgers, UAB, Geisenger

I actually really liked my wake interview and not sure why it’s getting shit on on the spreadsheet. Ya the PD cares about grades and scores; rather be treated by the smartest person rather than the one who brown-nosed their chair for the best letter

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Because the exact issue is that she conflates grades and scores with “being the smartest person ever.” PD seems incredibly militaristic and narrow-minded. Last time I checked no one gives a flying fuck about your grades and scores after med school. How many grades and scores of your attendings do you know?

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(03-06-2022, 10:38 AM)Guest Wrote: Because the exact issue is that she conflates grades and scores with “being the smartest person ever.” PD seems incredibly militaristic and narrow-minded. Last time I checked no one gives a flying fuck about your grades and scores after med school. How many grades and scores of your attendings do you know?

As flawed as grades/scores are, it’s better than the alternative. Grades in medschool are effectively hundreds of mini letters of rec from years of evaluation while a neurosurgery chair letter may be from someone you’ve interacted with for a couple hours total which is silly tbh.

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top 3: mayo, brigham, Wash U. great environments, reported resident experience, research, and cultures
bottom 3: stanford, uic, columbia. red flags/declining

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Did a sub-I at stanford. They're absolutely crushing it with volume and autonomy. I don't understand why people say that Stanford isn't an operative powerhouse. Yes, 20 years ago they were lacking in volume, but they have more than made up for it.

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(03-06-2022, 02:05 PM)Guest Wrote: Did a sub-I at stanford. They're absolutely crushing it with volume and autonomy. I don't understand why people say that Stanford isn't an operative powerhouse. Yes, 20 years ago they were lacking in volume, but they have more than made up for it.

3 chiefs scrubbing the crani for an aneurysm on their Twitter is telling.

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(03-06-2022, 01:07 AM)Guest Wrote: Why is Penn so high on everyone’s list?

I don't understand this either. They take Q3 call for basically 2.5-3 years, while not actually getting to operate until late in residency. Essentially zero vascular service. No big names in spine. They have CHOP where you do a bunch of floor work and close skin while the fellows and attendings operate. Quite a few residents talked about how great New Zealand was because they finally got to do critical parts of the case.

Top 3: Mayo, Barrow, UW

Bottom 3: UCSD, Wake Forest, Yale