ACEP Scientific Assembly
ACEP SA starts this weekend and goes through the middle of next week. There are workshops/lectures available to attend and a residency fair. We are in New Orleans and it should be interesting as this is one of the first large conventions post Katrina. We'll see how the city handles it and also how the convention goes.
Interview Trail '07
Travis here again. It appears that interview offers for EM are in prime season. I'll try to give you an update as several (if I'm lucky) come in rather than posting each individual one. But I do have one more to add to my list; UK. So here is my list thus far.
TravisUK
UAB
York
Orlando
Class of 2007 Interview Trail
Now is the time that interviews are starting to be offered. So we'll try to let you guys know where we interview and that way you'll know who to speak with about the places. So here goes the start.
TRAVISUAB
York (PA)
Orlando.
Away Rotation-University of Cincinnati
Justin again, posting my last away rotation, at University Hospital in Cincinnati
ProsSet up with the pod system, so you have lots of beds, but you don't have to cover all of them.
Lots of helicopter time as a resident.
Lots of vacation time as a resident.
Lots of elective time as a resident.
Students have a lot of autonomy, or as little as they want. Showing initiative is always a good thing though.
One lecture day per week, from 8am-1pm. If you also work that shift, you get half your shift cut off by this.
Faculty are very helpful.
Nurses act like you are a doctor, and don't treat you like a student (unless you act like one).
HUGE hospital.
Tons of research.
ConsI have 17 shifts this month, with 15 of them being 12 hours, and the other 2 being 10.
It is a four year program (not necessarily a con, but it is to a lot of people).
Just like Jacksonville, the real children's hospital isn't on site. Thus, you don't see any kids.
It's Cincinnati, so the geography isn't as sexy as some other places.
Because it is a dictation system, you don't ever write anything down. It takes some getting used to. You don't dictate as students.
Away Rotation-UF&Shands Jacksonville
I, Justin, spent September in Jacksonville at the UF-Shands facility. Here is what I think of the program.
ProsResident run essentially. The residents do everything.
Very high census. You see a lot.
Students get to do procedures based on their comfort level. Central lines, intubation (on critical patients), pericentesis, you name it.
Faculty are rocket scientists. You can ask them everything, and they know the answer.
Jax Beaches (Jacksonville, Atlantic, and Neptune) are less than 30 minutes away.
Great night life.
The residents kick ass for the most part
One day is toxicology day at the zoo, you get to touch poisonous snakes (safely), and take a behind the scenes tour of the Jax zoo.
You take a rescue ride as well.
Mandatory children's shifts.
Cons20-22 12 hour shifts per month as an intern.
12-13 12 hour shifts (plus one rescue that is 4-16 hours long) per month as a student.
The department is showing its age.
Incredibly high census means that average length of stay is enormous. You sometimes get patients after an 8 hour waiting room stint.
The real children's hospital is down at Wolfson's, and you don't get to go there.
Radiology runs the FAST scans in trauma.
Radiology takes forever.
The lab takes even longer.
All in all, probably the best place I have ever seen (of two).
